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Biggest in 27 years: Major earthquake hits California

An earthquake measuring 6 magnitudes on the Richter scale occurred in two states at once - California and Nevada. Tremors were felt even in Las Vegas and San Francisco. Writes about this NBC News.

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The earthquake struck shortly before 16:00 pm on Thursday 8 July. It was concentrated south of Lake Tahoe, near Walker, a rural community of several hundred families in the eastern Sierra Nevada. The authorities said no serious injuries or injuries were reported.

According to the US Geological Survey, it was followed by dozens of aftershocks of magnitude 4 and above.

“The ground shook really hard, and then everything started falling,” recalls Carolina Estrada, manager of Walker Coffee Company. “Bottles of syrup broke, dishes fell to the ground, and the roof of the store caved in a little.”

According to her, the earthquake lasted no more than 30 seconds.

“We ran out of the building,” says Caroline. But the shaking continued and "boulders the size of cars" fell onto nearby Highway 395.

The California Highway Patrol said some vehicles were stoned, but no injuries. Video from drivers showed cars moving slowly around large boulders lying on the roadway.

At one point, the stones blocked about 40 miles (64 km) of the highway, the main route through the Sierra Nevada, but the road was reopened a few hours later.

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“Our whole store was shaking,” said Brittany Oswald, who works at Smith's Food and Drug in Nevada. “I was just waiting for it all to be over.”

Kevin Cooper said the quake caused "the strongest tremors ever felt in Lake Tahoe," writes ABC7News.

Sally Rosen, owner of a popular burger restaurant in Walker, near the epicenter, was holding a sleeping two-year-old when the earthquake struck.

“We felt the building shake. At first they didn’t quite understand what it was,” Rosen recalls. “It was quite intense and scary.” We rushed out of the house and ran to the restaurant, because our first thought was: “Oh my God, we need to turn off the gas!”

Seismic waves swept through the Sierra Nevada mountains, where thousands of people camped and hiked west through California's agricultural Central Valley and found themselves about 250 miles (402 km) from San Francisco. Sacramento also felt a shudder, as did Las Vegas.

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“People in the area should expect aftershocks for several days after an earthquake of this magnitude,” warned Jason Ballman of the University of Southern California Earthquake Center.

Reports of injuries or injuries may not be available for several days as strong tremors were felt in remote areas, Ballman explained.

The quake hit the Antelope Valley Fault, which crosses the state border near Lake Topaz. According to seismologists, tremors and vibrations of individual parts of the earth's crust are frequent there. Last month, an earthquake measuring 5,8 magnitudes on the Richter scale shook the city of Lone Pine in the eastern Sierra.

The tremors were the largest earthquake ever in the region, following a 6,1-magnitude crustal vibration in 1994.

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