A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit near Ferndale, Humboldt County, causing a tsunami warning for over 5.3 million people in California. The quake was felt as far south as San Francisco, leading to the cessation of traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District's underwater tunnel.
was felt widely across Northern California on Thursday and authorities have issued a tsunami warning .
It was felt as far south as San Francisco, where residents felt a rolling motion for several seconds.The quake struck at 10.44am local time west of Ferndale, a small city in coastal Humboldt County near the Oregon border, according to the US Geological Survey. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known as BART, has stopped traffic in all directions through the underwater tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland.
More than 1.3 million people lived close enough to the quake that they could have felt it, the USGS estimated.In the Santa Cruz area, phones buzzed with a tsunami warning from the National Weather Service.
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