A powerful earthquake has occurred in California near San Diego, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reports. The magnitude, according to seismologists, reached 5.2.
Initially, the magnitude was predicted to be up to 6. However, experts later lowered it after analyzing the operational situation.
The tremors occurred at 17:08 UTC (20:08 Moscow time). They were recorded 59 kilometers from San Diego and 87 from the city of Palm Springs. The source, as seismologists added, was located at a depth of 13.4 kilometers.
Aftershocks were observed for about five minutes after the tremors. At least eight of them were noticed. The magnitude reached from 2.5 to 3.5. No one was hurt as a result of the incidents. The authorities have not yet declared a tsunami threat.
Earlier, it was reported that almost a hundred houses were completely destroyed in eastern Tajikistan as a result of a series of powerful earthquakes that occurred on April 13. Specialists from the crisis management center of the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the government of the republic said that a three-year-old child died as a result of the tremors in the Rasht district. More than 200 auxiliary buildings, including a school, medical centers and a teahouse, were also destroyed or damaged.