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(NEXSTAR) – The strong earthquake that jolted Northern California Thursday greeting was felt acold from its Humboldt County epicenter arsenic distant arsenic the Central Valley.
The USGS's "Did You Feel It?" tool allows radical to study erstwhile they consciousness an earthquake and however aggravated the shaking was adjacent them. After a beardown earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0, deed southwest of Ferndale astatine 10:44 a.m., much than 11,000 radical reported to USGS that they felt shaking.
In the Central Valley, radical successful Los Banos and Merced felt the quake - arsenic good arsenic respective reports from the Fresno and Clovis areas. There was adjacent a study from arsenic acold southbound arsenic NAS Lemoore and Visalia.
Map shows wherever residents reported feeling Thursday's beardown earthquake successful Humboldt County. (Map: USGS)The shaking was mostly reported arsenic "light" oregon "weak" down successful Santa Cruz County, but it was strongest successful and astir Humboldt.
"It started retired shaky and past turned into a rolling one," said Humboldt nonmigratory Katie Hall. "It seemed similar it went connected forever."
"It was horrible," she said.
The earthquake triggered a tsunami informing on the Oregon and California coastlines, which remained successful effect for astir an hr earlier being canceled.
Nexstar's Bill Disbrow contributed to this report.
