A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Mendocino County on Wednesday morning, knocking out electricity and shaking a wide swath of Northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey said. <\/p>\n
The quake occurred at 8:10 a.m. and was strong enough to knock items off shelves and out of cupboards, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said that somewhere between hundreds to thousands of customers were without power. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe quake was felt far and wide \u2014 from Humboldt County in the north to Sonoma County in the south,\u201d state Sen. Mike McGuire, a North Coast Democrat, said on social media. \u201cSupplies and items are off the shelves in stores throughout the region. A lot of pictures off the walls in homes.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were no early reports of major damage to the highways or other major public infrastructure in Willits or Ukiah, such as to hospitals, the water and sewage systems and other public facilities, McGuire said. <\/p>\n
Several aftershocks, of up to magnitude 2.7, were reported within an hour of the main earthquake.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrong\u201d shaking, as defined by the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, was felt in the city of Willits, northwest of Ukiah, according to the USGS. In general, that intensity is frightening and strong enough to be felt by everyone. <\/p>\n
\u201cVery strong\u201d shaking may have been felt in the remote mountains east of Willits and north of Redwood Valley.<\/p>\n
The intensity of shaking was considered \u201cmoderate\u201d in Ukiah; \u201clight\u201d in Fort Bragg, Lakeport, Clearlake and Cloverdale; and \u201cweak\u201d in Eureka, Redding and Chico, as well as the Sonoma County cities of Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park and Petaluma, the USGS said. <\/p>\n
Roughly 60,000 to 70,000 people are estimated to have felt \u201cmoderate,\u201d \u201cstrong\u201d or \u201cvery strong\u201d shaking, the USGS said. <\/p>\n
The epicenter was about seven miles southeast of Willits, 15 miles north of Ukiah, 30 miles southeast of Fort Bragg, 70 miles northwest of Santa Rosa, 90 miles northwest of Napa and 116 miles northwest of San Francisco. <\/p>\n
The USGS\u2019 earthquake early warning system was activated, reaching cellphones in the San Francisco Bay Area. The system initially calculated that a magnitude 6 earthquake had occurred. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Mendocino County on Wednesday morning, knocking out electricity and shaking a wide swath…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,337,2949,63,1741,7286,346,7656,14220,62844,8952,8955],"class_list":["post-373228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-call","tag-earthquake","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-lot","tag-mendocino-county","tag-office","tag-person","tag-phone","tag-preliminary-magnitude","tag-quake","tag-u-s-geological-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373228","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=373228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}