{"id":344817,"date":"2026-06-03T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344817\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:12:09","slug":"california-north-coast-shaken-by-magnitude-5-1-earthquake-near-eureka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344817\/","title":{"rendered":"California north coast shaken by magnitude 5.1 earthquake near Eureka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of offshore earthquakes shook near California&#8217;s North Coast early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The quakes included a <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/nc75370186\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">magnitude 5.1<\/a> earthquake about 40 miles west of Petrolia, which struck at 5:45 a.m., and a larger <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us7000sq93\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">magnitude 5.7<\/a> earthquake that struck just before 4 a.m. farther offshore, west-southwest of Pistol River, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes after the Petrolia-area quake, an apparent aftershock registering as a magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in nearly the same area.<\/p>\n<p>The Petrolia-area quakes were very shallow, with preliminary depths of less than a mile below the seafloor.<\/p>\n<p>USGS impact estimates for the larger quakes were low, and no major damage was expected. No tsunami warning, advisory, watch or threat was in effect, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsunami.gov\/?p=PAAQ\/2026\/06\/03\/tg1y9x\/1\/WEAK53\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">U.S. Tsunami Warning Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of offshore earthquakes shook near California&#8217;s North Coast early Wednesday morning. The quakes included a magnitude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2949,13475,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-344817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-earthquake","tag-eureka","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344817","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=344817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}