{"id":374216,"date":"2026-06-25T08:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374216\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:37:42","slug":"earthquake-rattles-northern-california-alert-comes-to-rogue-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374216\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake rattles Northern California, alert comes to Rogue Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earthquake rattles Northern California, alert comes to Rogue Valley<\/p>\n

Published 10:17 am Wednesday, June 24, 2026<\/p>\n

\n By Rick Hurd and Paul Rogers\/The Mercury News via TNS\n <\/p>\n

The largest earthquake in California in more than three years shook a rural part of southern Mendocino County on Wednesday morning, causing power outages and disruption near Ukiah.<\/p>\n

Rogue Valley residents received a text alert about the quake Wednesday morning in real time. The quake was 335 miles away.<\/p>\n

The magnitude 5.6 quake was centered about seven miles north of the small community of Redwood Valley in Mendocino County near Ukiah, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ground shook about 8:10 a.m. Pacific time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, thank goodness, it doesn\u2019t look like it has been terribly damaging,\u201d said Sarah Minson, a research geophysicist with the USGS Earthquake Science Center at Moffett Field. \u201cThe shaking intensity was strong right over the source but it decayed fairly rapidly there wasn\u2019t a large area impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

The quake was the largest earthquake in the state since Dec. 20, 2022, when a 6.4 quake hit near the small town of Ferndale on the Humboldt County Coast.<\/p>\n

The depth of Monday\u2019s earthquake was about 5 miles below the the earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n


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The quake is believed to have occurred on the Maacama Fault, Minson said, which is a northern extension of the Hayward Fault.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in Willits,\u201d she added. \u201cI know that area very well. It is wine country around there. The epicenter is a very rural area.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were early reports of some power lines down. It was not known immediately whether there were any injuries.<\/p>\n

Minson said that like much of California\u2019s landscape, the Maacama Fault which runs through Sonoma and Mendocino counties, shaped the landscape of the region starting millions of years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you drive up Highway 101 there, it connects a bunch of valleys, each of which have a little town in it,\u201d she said. \u201cBasically that is the fault system. The faults formed those valleys. It\u2019s sort of like when you are on Interstate 280 on the Peninsula. That\u2019s basically the San Andreas Fault.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earthquake rattles Northern California, alert comes to Rogue Valley Published 10:17 am Wednesday, June 24, 2026 By Rick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-374216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374216","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=374216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}