Moderate quake jolts Northern California

Events / Incidents - 14 February 2012, Tuesday 11:07

HOOPA VALLEY INDIAN RESERVATION, CALIFORNIA (QHA) - A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck Northern California’s coast on February 13, according to Associated Press.
The quake struck at 1:07 p.m. about 18 miles (30 kilometers) east of Trinidad, in an unincorporated part of Humboldt County, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter was a rural area near the small community of Weitchpec on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, about 240 miles (350 kilometers) north of San Francisco and about 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of the Oregon border.
The temblor was widely felt within a 100-mile (160-kilometer) radius, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it wasn't large enough to generate a tsunami.
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Department and Eureka Police Department sent deputies and officers to check on residents, but dispatchers said there were no immediate reports of emergencies.


 
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