A tsunami warning issued for a large stretch of northern California and Oregon—including San Francisco Bay—was canceled a little more than an hour after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the Golden State’s coast Thursday morning.
San Francisco's coastline is under a Tsunami warning. (Photo by Ray Chavez/Digital First Media/The ... [+]
The earthquake occurred at 10:44 a.m. PST, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which reported a 7.0 magnitude earthquake about 60 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, California.
Around 10:59 a.m. PST, the National Weather Service’s Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning stretching from Davenport, California (10 miles northwest of Santa Cruz) to Douglas/Lane county line in Oregon (10 miles southwest of Florence), urging people to evacuate from the coastline and onto higher ground or inland.
The warning was canceled at 11:54 a.m. PST, as the National Weather Service reported “no tsunami danger presently exists” for the coastal areas of California and Oregon.
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