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    Magnitude-5.6 quake strikes Northern California

    HOOPA VALLEY INDIAN RESERVATION, California (AP) — A moderate earthquake struck Northern California's coast Monday afternoon, rattling nerves around the Oregon border but yielding no immediate reports of major injuries or damage.

    The magnitude-5.6 quake struck at 1:07 p.m. about 18 miles (30 kilometers) east of Trinidad, in an unincorporated part of Humboldt County, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter was a rural area near the small community of Weitchpec on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, about 240 miles (350 kilometers) north of San Francisco and about 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of the Oregon border.

    The temblor was widely felt within a 100-mile (160-kilometer) radius, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it wasn't large enough to generate a tsunami.

    The Humboldt County Sheriff's Department and Eureka Police Department sent deputies and officers to check on residents, but dispatchers said there were no immediate reports of emergencies. Things also seemed fine on the Hoopa reservation, according to Byron Nelson Jr., the tribe's vice chairman.

    "It was just a mild shaking. It wasn't a sharp jerk," said Sgt. Gene McManus of the Del Norte County Sheriff's Department, a neighboring agency that also saw no immediate problems.

    Children's building blocks tumbled at Weitchpec Elementary School, but the staff and students took the shaking in stride.

    Kate Lowry, the school's sole teacher, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that she, her aide and the 19 children followed their earthquake drill procedure and filed out of the building.

    "We were still moving as we were walking across," Lowry said. "Once we got down in the field, it had stopped."

    At nearby Pearson's Grocery Store, Karen Pearson watched cans fall off the shelves as a man yelled for people to get out.

    "It was very scary because you have no control of these things," Pearson said. "Hopefully it's over."

     

    31 comments

    • Barry  •  Reno, Nevada  •  3 mths ago
      If California were to break off and slide into the ocean Mexico would lose a notable percentage of their population.
    • john  •  3 mths ago
      Golly ...gee...whiz.......i hope a lot of gardening equipment wasnt damaged in humboldt county...
    • rustybucket55  •  Warren, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      Goodby California!
    • startover  •  3 mths ago
      if that 5.6 would have hit in southern california it would have been a different story.everyone knows the big one should have hit a long time ago.one time when i was in long beach a 4.0 threw me off the bed,the next day i brought it up and nobody gave me a responce.talk about a major state of denial
    • m.r  •  3 mths ago
      Hurricane Katrina ... Ohio valley floods ... New England ice storms .... next California ...
      FEMA get ready ... the shaken in SanFrancisco might rival the hell of a mess in Haiti.
    • Gee Bee  •  3 mths ago
      hey, Honey, did you hear there was a 5.6 quake this afternoon? Oh, I thought it was a truck passing by. . . . . . . .
    • adex07  •  Nairobi, Kenya  •  3 mths ago
      i fear for the unavoidable worst....... ITS COMING!!!
    • wild  •  Anoka, Minnesota  •  3 mths ago
      to bad it didnt hit piglosi house
      • Brian 3 mths ago
        I didn't even need to read the comment. All I needed to see was a "sentence" without punctuation or at least one capital letter to know that you are a #$%$ The comment itself was just icing on the cake.
      • wild 3 mths ago
        you seriously need to have your b/f stop skull f---ing you, making you libtards stupid
    • wettonfan  •  Warminster, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      That was just my ex falling on her fat butt
    • Dave  •  Denver, Colorado  •  3 mths ago
      When California breaks off and sinks into the ocean all I can say is good riddance!
    • Hank N  •  3 mths ago
      Not Humboldt county.... That where all the good weeds are.
    • Henry  •  3 mths ago
      Still waiting impatiently for the big one.
    • Fern Nando  •  3 mths ago
      This in response to the Proposition-8. Bigger one coming soon, a 20.0 magnitude.
      • SW 3 mths ago
        I assume you're 200% sure of this?
    • Not Too Concerned  •  3 mths ago
      We were rockin and rollin in Eureka (about an hour west of Hoopa).
    • HANK HILL  •  3 mths ago
      SEAN CONNERY!
      • SW 3 mths ago
        Suck it Trebec
    • observer  •  3 mths ago
      Quick, someone call FEMA and send in Federal money to help these poor people.
    • Good Republican  •  3 mths ago
      I truly hope that the final big one hits this leftist regime state before election time. Yes, I'm serious.
    • The Patriot  •  Fresno, California  •  3 mths ago
      there will be wars and rumors of wars, nations will be in distress, there will be earthquakes in diverse places, increasing in frequency like a woman about to give birth. ready or not folks, Jesus is coming. so "get right or get left" because there will be no 2nd rapture and you don't want to be here after the Holy Spirit is taken out of the way leaving evil to consume everything.
    • hookedonharley  •  3 mths ago
      proof again that there is no god, cause, if there were a god, california would be underwater
    • HANK HILL  •  3 mths ago
      CHARLIE SHEEN: WHOA!
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