Magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes off the coast of Northern California
San Francisco Chronicle · Aldo Toledo ·
An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.0 struck off the coast of Northern California on Wednesday evening.
An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.0 struck off the coast of Northern California on Wednesday evening.
The United States Geological Survey detected the quake at 8:56 p.m. with an epicenter near off the coast of Northern California and a depth of 6.2 miles. It was initially reported as magnitude 4.6, then revised to 5.0 after review.
The fault that caused the quake was not immediately known, but the epicenter was 0.3 miles south of Mendocino fault zone, according to the USGS fault database. Explore the major California faults on our map.
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