
Fortuna is near Eureka and about a 280-mile drive northwest of Sacramento.Īt least two people are dead “as a result of medical emergencies” during and after the earthquake, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. PT, was in the Pacific about 15 miles from Fortuna, a city of about 12,000 people in Humboldt County, part of California’s forested Redwood Coast. The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 2:34 a.m. Geological Survey CircularĪ reevaluation following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Northern California’s Eureka area early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, leaving at least two people dead, drawing reports of damage to roads and homes, shaking residents from their sleep and leaving tens of thousands without electricity. Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities,ġ990, Probabilities of Large Earthquakes in the San Franciscoīay Region, California: U.S."An overview of the history, geology, geomorphology, geophysics,Īnd seismology of the most well known plate-tectonic boundary World to reconstruct the nature in space and time of the 1906Īndreas Fault System, California: U.S. Technical study using old seismograms from around the T.H., Source study of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Wald, D.J., Kanamori, Hiroo, Helmberger, D.V., and Heaton,

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