South California phone network jam due to earthquake. As at that time many people tried calling up their relatives and friends leads to network congestion. According to area’s main phone companies infrastructure remain intact. Earth quake was measured at 5.4 richter scale.

According to AT&T spokesman, there was no known damage to the company’s phone lines or cellular towers, but that both networks experienced congestion. In case of an emergency, he recommended repeatedly retrying a landline phone number, or using text messaging on a cell phone.

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