Tsunami warning has been canceled after massive 7.0 earthquake rattles Northern California, Oregon
“No tsunami danger presently exists for this area,” the National Tsunami Warning Center said Thursday.
A tsunami warning was issued for parts of the West Coast. (USGS)
The threat of a tsunami briefly rattled residents of Northern California and Southern Oregon after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast.
The quake’s epicenter was in California’s Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, the National Weather Service said in a bulletin.
Cellphones in the coast regions of Northern California and Southern Oregon rang out with an “Emergency Alert” at 10:51 a.m. PST.
Just before noon local time, the National Tsunami Warning Center canceled the tsunami warning.
The U.S. Geological Survey said that more than 5.3 million people in California were under a tsunami warning, the Associated Press reported, and that more than 1.3 million people lived close enough to the epicenter to feel the earthquake.
The National Weather Service has canceled the tsunami warnings it had issued for parts of Oregon and California following a strong earthquake that struck off the Northern California coast:
— Yahoo News
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