![]() Saturday and causing minor damage.Īntczak reported from Los Angeles. The earthquake came just days after a small magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area, waking up thousands of people before 4 a.m. The system pushed out alerts to some 3 million people in Northern California early Tuesday, officials said. The quake triggered a massive response by the West Coast’s warning system that detects the start of a quake and sends alerts to cellphones in the affected region that can give people notice to take safety precautions in the seconds before strong shaking reaches them. “We’re in this moment of geologic time where the most exciting, dynamic area of California happens to be Humboldt County and the adjacent offshore area,” said Lori Dengler, professor emeritus of geology at Cal Poly Humboldt. ![]() The earthquake occurred in an area known as the Mendocino Triple Junction, where three tectonic plates meet. The couple quickly got out of Ferndale and returned to their home. It shook in a way I had never experienced. ![]() “I laid back down again and it was almost as if someone jumped on the bed,” she said. with an eerie feeling and tried to go back to sleep. They decided to try again and booked the romance package at a historic inn, the same spot as a year ago. Larkin O’Leary, 41, of Santa Rosa, traveled to spend her anniversary with her husband in Ferndale, where they had been jolted by an earthquake last year. “The cows were just dancing to some rock and roll today,” he said, noting that his herd appeared to be OK but were probably spooked by the din of everything “bouncing around.” ![]() A glass cabinet with mementos, ornaments and family photos “walked itself” away from a wall and a refrigerator and freezer “shimmied its way across” the garage. Leonardi spent two hours cleaning up glass after the temblor shook nearly ever drawer in his house open, knocked over a dresser and yanked furniture and appliances from where they were anchored to the wall for earthquake safety. Humboldt County has about 136,000 residents and is in a part of the state that has a long history of large earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 in 1980 and a 6.8 in 2014, according to the California Earthquake Authority.ĭennis Leonardi drove through the night from the San Francisco Bay Area to get back to his dairy farm in Ferndale, and then had to take a lengthy detour because the bridge was out. The power outage involved the main transmission line that runs into the region and Pacific Gas & Electric’s restoration work was slowed because rain prevented use of a helicopter to assess damage, said state Sen. Three decades ago, homes in nearby Petrolia burned because the firehouse garage door jammed and trapped the engines inside. In an echo of the 1992 quake, the volunteer Rio Dell Fire Department was initially delayed in responding to some 60 calls that included two fires because the garage doors were off the hinges and had to be pried open, Chief Shane Wilson said. ![]()
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