About 70,000 customers were without power in Humboldt County after the quake struck near Eureka, California.
The quake was centered off the coast about 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, California, in Humboldt County, and struck around 2:34 a.m. PT. Ferndale is about 20 miles south of Eureka, California, and San Francisco is about 260 miles south of Ferndale.
It is unclear if anyone was injured by the earthquake, but thousands were without power in Humboldt County. The Humboldt County Office of Emergency ServicesAbout 70,000 customers reported outages as of 7:45 a.m. ET, according toThere was no threat of a tsunami in connection with the earthquake,More than a dozen smaller earthquakes, known as aftershocks, struck the area after the 6.
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