5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Registered in California

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Bulgaria: 5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Registered in California

An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 on the Richter scale was registered in California at 3.53 local time. The quake was at a depth of 12 km. Its epicenter is 869 kilometers northwest from Los Angeles, with a population of 3.8 million people, and 300 kilometers northwest from Sacramento.

Close to the epicenter, just a few kilometers away is the small town of Petrolia, which is located about 400 kilometers from San Francisco.

So far there has been no information about victims and injured people.

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