California was hit by an earthquake on Friday after days of devastating wildfires sweeping through the state. A 3.7 earthquake was reported in the San Francisco area at around 7 a.m., with over 5,000 residents reporting to have felt it,

Leadership in California and Los Angeles are being criticized as hundreds lose homes, businesses, schools and more in destructive wildfires. "We built a major metropolitan area in a desert on a tectonic fault.

A light, 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 6:34 p.m. Pacific time about 2 miles northwest of Cobb, Calif., or about 70 miles north of San Francisco, data from the agency shows.