{"id":262981,"date":"2026-04-11T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:47:10","slug":"preliminary-3-4-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-northern-california-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262981\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary 3.4 magnitude earthquake rattles Northern California \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A preliminary 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck in Humboldt County Saturday morning, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/nc75342702\/executive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States Geological Survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quake, which hit at around 11:12 a.m. and was centered about 17 miles northwest of Trinidad, the USGS said.<\/p>\n<p>Further information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Details may change as more information becomes available. Stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/bay-area-quake-central\/3100957\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775936830_322_quake-central-BUTTON3-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/bay-area-quake-central\/3100957\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/>BAY AREA QUAKE CENTRAL<\/a><br \/>You can take steps to plan and prepare for the next big one. Access our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/earthquakes\/san-francisco-bay-area-earthquake-tracker\/3003104\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Quake Tracker<\/a>, the latest earthquake stories, extensive quake prep checklists, videos and many other disaster preparedness resources all in one place: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/bay-area-quake-central\/3100957\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBCBAYAREA.COM\/QUAKES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A preliminary 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck in Humboldt County Saturday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,3934,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-262981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-earthquakes","12":"tag-northern-california"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}