Magnitude 4.1 earthquake shakes Northern California communities
PETROLIA, Calif. – A magnitude 4.1 earthquake shook some Northern California communities early Tuesday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported about 13 miles west of Petrolia in the Pacific Ocean just after midnight Tuesday at a depth of about 12 miles.
Northern California residents could feel aftershocks as high as magnitude 6.0 for months following Thursday morning's magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit offshore in Eureka, California. The main ...
Crews in Eureka, the biggest city ... More recently, a tsunami from a 2011 earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California coast, much of it in Crescent City.
The United States Geological Survey reports a preliminary magnitude 2.5 earthquake struck near Pittsburg, CA on Thursday. The quake hit at 11:07 PM local time at a depth of 17 kilometers.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Humboldt County in California, and tremors were also felt in Oregon. Residents of Rio Dell, Eureka, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento reported strong shakes.
The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California happened just one year earlier, in 1994. The two events killed 6,400 people, injured 45,000, and left a half million people homeless.
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