{"id":226960,"date":"2026-06-24T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226960\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:12:11","slug":"a-moderate-earthquake-rocks-northern-california-but-no-immediate-reports-of-damage-or-injuries-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226960\/","title":{"rendered":"A moderate earthquake rocks Northern California, but no immediate reports of damage or injuries | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT BRAGG, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/earthquakes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moderate earthquake<\/a> shook a remote area of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California<\/a> on Wednesday morning, but there were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The epicenter of the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, was about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt widely, including in the fishing city of Fort Bragg. The initial quake was centered inland about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Fort Bragg at 8:10 a.m. local time, and the USGS said it was about 5 miles (8 kilometers) deep.<\/p>\n<p>Workers at Mendocino Coast Pharmacy were getting ready to open for the day when they all got quake alarms on their cellphones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at our phones, then we looked at each other, and that\u2019s when we felt it,\u201d said Angie, who declined to give her last name. She described it as a rolling shake that lasted just a few seconds. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that big, but it was a little scary,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Medina, who works at Cafe One in Fort Bragg, said she felt it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings were shaking,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s done, not too strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fawnell Dale, a dispatch supervisor at the Mendocino County Sheriff\u2019s Office, also described the shaking as mild and said they hadn\u2019t gotten any reports of any damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A 2.5 magnitude quake struck near the epicenter a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT BRAGG, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A moderate earthquake shook a remote area of Northern California on Wednesday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,98498,79110,38,9057,44],"class_list":["post-226960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-earthquake-northern-california","tag-earthquakes","tag-general-news","tag-natural-disasters","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}