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A moderate earthquake struck a sparsely populated area of California’s Mojave Desert on Friday night. The shaking was felt from Southern California to the fringes of Nevada and Arizona, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The 5.1-magnitude temblor struck just outside Ludlow on Interstate 40 in San Bernardino County, about 120 miles east of Los Angeles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The initial reports measured the quake at 5.5 magnitude. “The ground was rolling underneath but it was very light. Nothing,” said Jeremy Chestnut, 20, who works at a Dairy Queen in Ludlow. “I was standing in front of an ice cream machine and it makes the ground shake, too.” The quake is the second one above a magnitude-5.0 to hit Southern California this year. In July, a magnitude-5.4 quake centered in the hills east of Los Angeles was the strongest to rattle a populated area of Southern California since the 1994 Northridge disaster. In the town of Yermo, about 20 miles from Ludlow, a dozen peo
“The ground was rolling underneath but it was very light. Nothing,” said Jeremy Chestnut, 20, who works at a Dairy Queen in Ludlow. “I was standing in front of an ice cream machine and it makes the ground shake, too.” The quake is the second one above a magnitude-5.0 to hit Southern California this year. In July, a magnitude-5.4 quake centered in the hills east of Los Angeles was the strongest to rattle a populated area of Southern California since the 1994 Northridge disaster. In the town of Yermo, about 20 miles from Ludlow, a dozen people in Lee’s Tavern didn’t seem too concerned when the bottles began to rattle. “Everyone said, ‘Oh, it’s an earthquake.'” said Leon Lee, the bar’s owner. “We didn’t hardly feel anything, just some kind of vibration.” The quake struck 16 miles northwest of Ludlow, which has a population of 10, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. The quake “is relatively shallow and if it were located in a more populated area it could be very damaging,” USGS USGS United
