Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes northern California

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast in Northern California’s Cape Mendocino region, followed by nerve-racking aftershocks that caused objects to fall off shelves, authorities said, Monday.

There were no reports of damage or injuries.

The USGS and Humboldt County Police Department said the quake occurred 5.6 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean about 24 miles west of the small Petrolia community along the rocky wilderness of California’s Lost Coast region in Humboldt County.

Seismologist Lucy Jones wrote on Twitter that the quake did not trigger a tsunami warning due to the nature of the fault system it came from.

No injuries were immediately reported after the quake struck at 12:10 p.m. local time, Samantha Kargis, a spokeswoman for the Humboldt County Police Department, said in an email. No evacuation orders were issued in the sparsely populated area.

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Karges said workers and crews have been deployed to check for damage to the roads, and two roads have been closed due to rockslides caused by the vibration. Its administration said on Twitter, that several aftershocks were recorded along the coast in the southern part of the province.

A scientist in San Francisco felt the shaking about 200 miles (320 km) away, according to a tweet by the California Geological Survey.

“Moderate to strong shaking was recorded by the seismic network along the coast,” a post on the agency’s Twitter account read. “This CGS geologist felt the earthquake in San Francisco!”

In 1992, the same area was hit by a series of earthquakes that destroyed more than 1,100 homes and businesses, the Los Angeles Times reported later that year.

The largest earthquake of 1992 had a magnitude of 7.2, about 10 times as strong as Monday’s earthquake.

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