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The San Bernardino County Fire Department said that"buildings and roads have sustained varying degrees of damage"in two decades on Thursday, a 6.4-magnitude tremblor that caused “substantial damage” at a military facility but otherwise only minor injuries in the sparsely populated area.

Although the quake in the most populous US state of California revived fears of the “Big One” — a powerful tremor along the San Andreas Fault that could devastate major cities in Southern California — President Trump was quick to reassure that this wasn’t it. The earthquake was the largest in Southern California since 1999 when a 7.1-magnitude quake struck the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base, according toThursday’s epicentre was in or on the edge of the US Navy’s sprawling desert bomb testing range known as China Lake.

This included “buildings with minor cracks, broken water mains, power lines down, rock slides on certain roads.”Residents told local TV that the shaking set off panic, while sending televisions plunging to the ground and causing drawers to fall open.Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said there was no significant damage in the second-largest US city.Jones said there is a small possibility this quake is the prelude to a larger one.

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