A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit off the northern California coast on Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large stretch of the California and Oregon coasts that was later cancelled, officials said.
Emergency Info B.C. says there is “no tsunami threat to B.C.”
Some 4.7 million residents of California and Oregon had been under the tsunami warning before it was cancelled, the U.S. National Weather Service said.
The quake, which hit at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres, was centred about 63 kilometres west of the town of Ferndale, Calif., a sparsely populated portion of the state’s northern coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The U.S. National Tsunami Center had issued a warning for a long stretch of the U.S. West Coast, from Dunes City, Ore., south to San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., 643 kilometres away.
We’ve all been told to prepare for “The Big One” — a massive earthquake that is forecast to bring destruction to the Lower Mainland. While the damage will be severe, not every part of the region will be hit the same way. Darius Mahdavi went out with some researchers who are creating detailed mapping that outlines the risk at a more granular level.
The City of Berkeley police department had issued an evacuation order for parts of the city on the San Francisco Bay “due to a Tsunami coming to West Berkeley,” according to an alert sent to residents.
About 19,000 clients were without power in Humboldt County — up from near zero before the earthquake struck, according to data from PowerOutage.us.