After an earthquake shakes can last for days, months or even years, experts say. However, they say, there is no room for panic.
In July of this year, an earthquake of the same magnitude as that in Albania, 6.4 hit southern California. The epicenter was near Ridgecrest, about 160km from Los Angeles.
The blows did not end there: the strongest arrived a day later, and was of magnitude 7.1. The quake was followed by thousands of aftershocks, reaching up to 5.4. The first earthquake caused relatively minor damage, while the second caused fires in several Ridgecrest buildings with thousands of residents without electricity.
His shakes were felt in almost all of southern California, in some parts of Arizona and Nevada, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento and as far as Baja California, Mexico. Nearly 20 million people felt the first quake, and 30 million the second. Despite their strength, these earthquakes left only one dead and 25 injured, 20 on the first day, four on July, and five on the second. But the panic, meanwhile, was overwhelming, fueled by constant aftermath.
Seismologist Egill Hauksson predicted that this situation could last for months, if not years. Such was the case with the magnitude 7.7 earthquake of 1952 in Techahapi, California, which lasted for 40 years. But the aftershocks of the 7.3 earthquake that struck Landers in California in 1992 still persist.
According to experts, the stronger the earthquake, the longer the subsequent shocks. However, in the case of the recent violent earthquake shaking in California, they did not foresee another strong earthquake, despite fears of aftershocks, arguing that the intervals between the two major earthquakes would last in time. /
