Dozens of Southern California residents were displaced and hundreds were without power Saturday morning after a magnitude-5.1 earthquake shook La Habra Friday night.
More than 80 Fullerton residents were forced to leave their homes after the strong temblor that was felt as far away as Kern and San Diego counties, according to the Fullerton Police Department.
At least twenty apartment units in the 2700 block of Associated Road and three homes in the 2900 block of Juanita street were red tagged. No injuries were reported as a result of the quake.
Thirty properties were deemed uninhabitable following the quake.
The American Red Cross opened a shelter for La Habra residents at the La Habra Community Center located at 101 W. La Habra Blvd. Thirty-eight people -- many of whom live in the evacuated apartment complex -- spent the night in the shelter.
The shelter was closed Saturday afternoon.
Hundreds of others were affected Saturday morning as Southern California Edison reported that 34 customers in La Habra Heights and 792 customers in Buena Park were without power.
Fire officials reported several small water main breaks and gas leaks in La Habra, Fullerton and La Mirada. Several stores in the area had items fall of the shelves, creating a mess for employees and customers.
Fullerton resident Daniel Taylor told NBC4 via email everything fell down in his home.
"I felt both quakes. The second quake hit really hard, it was a hard and fast quake," he said. "My 100-gallon fish tank went down. Water damage everywhere from the tank. My water pipes under my sink cracked."
Police and firefighters were expected to conduct a citywide damage assessment in Fullerton at 8 a.m. Saturday, officials said.
The temblor was first reported just after 9 p.m. as a magnitude-5.3 but it was downgraded within 30 minutes. More than 100 aftershocks were reported as of Saturday morning, said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey.
The largest aftershock was a magnitude-3.6 quake that struck around 1:30 a.m. A magnitude-3.4 aftershock struck in La Habra Saturday morning around 9:02 a.m.
No significant damage was reported, but aftershocks were widely felt throughout the Los Angeles area.
The earthquake was probably 10 times larger than the March 17 magnitude-4.4 quake near Encino in terms of energy released, Caltech's Lucy Jones said.
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