A 6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes the US state of Idaho, and experts are awaiting the worst

An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit the US state of Idaho, where the US Geological Survey confirmed that the first tremors occurred at approximately six in the evening, Tuesday local time.

According to international media, the epicenter of the earthquake occurred 118 km northeast of the city of Meridian, near the small mountain town of Stanley..

The geological surveyor pointed out that more than two million people felt the earthquakes in various parts of the state, and some of them heard a loud echo before that, while there were no reports of injuries due to the earthquake so far..

On the other hand, Lucy Jones, a seismologist, confirmed that Idaho experiences earthquakes of this size every three or four decades, the last of which occurred in 1983, and it is likely that the residents of the region will feel within the next hours more tremors..

Separately, the White House has predicted between 100.000 and 240.000 deaths in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic, and this is not the first time that task force scientists have made such bleak predictions..

But Dr. Birx said the model does not assume that every American does everything they are supposed to do, "so it could be less than that."".

"Our hope is to reduce this as much as possible," added epidemiologist Anthony Fauci. Numbers are 'what we need to expect, but that doesn't mean that's what we'll accept'".

“We are going to have two very hard weeks,” Trump said in a more somber tone at the daily briefing on Corona, Tuesday.. "

He added that there would be "light at the end of the tunnel". We'll see things get better "suddenly" like "lights "