Five days after an explosive wildfire in Southern California sent thousands fleeing for their lives, the authorities lifted all evacuation orders to allow residents to return home.

Millionaire David Duffield, the former computer software magnate, plans to revise blueprints to build a huge mansion after neighbours complained the hotel-sized home was out of character with the area.

More aftershocks rattled central California today following a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that killed two people, injuring dozens and wrecked a landmark clock tower.

At least two people were killed when an earthquake rocked California’s central coast and shook the state from Los Angeles to San Francisco.