(NEXSTAR) – The robust earthquake that jolted Northern California Thursday morning was felt removed from its Humboldt County epicenter.
The USGS’s “Did You Feel It?” instrument permits folks to report after they really feel an earthquake and the way intense the shaking was close to them. After a robust earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of seven.0, hit southwest of Ferndale at 10:44 a.m., greater than 11,000 folks reported to USGS that they felt shaking.
The experiences got here in north of the epicenter, round Eugene, Oregon, and stretched down half of the California shoreline to Santa Cruz and Salinas – greater than 350 miles away from Ferndale.
Map reveals the place residents reported feeling Thursday’s robust earthquake in Humboldt County. (Map: USGS)
The shaking was principally reported as “light” or “weak” down in Santa Cruz County, however it was strongest in and round Humboldt.
“It started out shaky and then turned into a rolling one,” mentioned Humboldt resident Katie Corridor. “It seemed like it went on forever.”
“It was horrible,” she mentioned.
The earthquake triggered a tsunami warning alongside the Oregon and California coastlines, which remained in impact for about an hour earlier than being canceled.
Nexstar’s Invoice Disbrow contributed to this report.
