HomeUSAAt least 70,000 without power after 6.4-magnitude earthquake rattles Northern California

At least 70,000 without power after 6.4-magnitude earthquake rattles Northern California

An infographic titled ”Earthquake hits Northern California” with 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Ankara, Turkiye on December 20, 2022. (Photo by Omar Zaghloul/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of Northern California early Tuesday, knocking out power for thousands.

The quake hit at a depth of 10 miles just after 5:30 a.m. ET near Eureka in Humboldt County, the U.S. Geological Survey said. 

It struck around 7.4 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, the agency said.

More than a dozen smaller earthquakes appeared to hit parts of the region afterward, it said.

It was not immediately clear whether anyone was injured in the earthquake.

More than 70,000 utility customers were without power in Humboldt County as of 8 a.m. ET Tuesday, according to the online outage tracker Poweroutage.us.

“Power is out across the county,” Humboldt County’s Office of Emergency Services said in a tweet, adding: “DO NOT CALL 911 UNLESS YOU ARE EXPERIENCING AN IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY.”

There was no threat of a tsunami in connection with the earthquake as of early Tuesday, the National Weather Service’s tsunami warning system said.

A number of people said on social media that they were woken up by the MyShake earthquake warning app on their cellphones.

The quake comes almost exactly a year after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck offshore in the Cape Mendocino area of Northern California on Dec. 21 last year. No major damage or injures were reported in connection with that quake.

That earthquake had struck at a depth of 5.6 miles in the Pacific Ocean, about 24 miles west of the small community of Petrolia along the rocky wilderness of California’s Lost Coast region in Humboldt County, the Geological Survey and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department said at the time.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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