On the map: The Northern California earthquake is the strongest of the year in the United States

See where other significant earthquakes have occurred.

Updated: December 5, 2024, 4:25 p.m. CST

We start with breaking news and this breaking news from Humboldt County, where a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the Petrolia area just before 11 a.m. today, at 10:45 a.m. to be exact. IN THE SAME AREA WHERE WE HAD A MAGNITUDE 4.9 EARTHQUAKE IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR. A tsunami warning was also issued, but that tsunami warning for most of California and into Oregon has just been lifted. So that’s great news. Another earthquake was also reported near COBB, with a magnitude of 5.8. The governor’s office says the Office of Emergency Services (OS) is responding to the earthquakes in both Humboldt and Lake County, and that’s how they’re getting on top of it. Of course, the USGS is very active right now. For a while, BART, they had to close the subway between SAN FRANCISCO and OAKLAND underwater. I’m not sure if the restaurant has reopened yet, but there’s a lot of chaos on BART right now. They had to close a lot of things just because there was an evacuation order for a while. NOT ONLY FOR PARTS OF THE BAY AREA, BUT ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST BERKELEY AREA. Hopefully everything returns to normal. IN THE MEANTIME I WANT TO GO TO METEOROLOGIST DIRK VERDOORN AND OH LOOK AT THESE LIVE PICTURES NOW. And I think you just said that’s an I-80 near EMERYVILLE? YES. This is I-80 near EMERYVILLE. And you can see on one side at the top of your screen that it’s the water ski park that they also evacuated. And you know, as you know, if you’ve driven through 80 in the Bay Area, it’s straight to the water in San Francisco Bay. Let’s come to meteorologist Dirk Verdoorn. NICE TO SEE THE TRAFFIC ON THE 80 IS WELL DEVELOPED AND THINGS ARE STARTING TO BECOME BACK TO NORMAL AFTER THEY JUST CANCELED THIS TSUNAMI WARNING. And those evacuation orders for West Berkeley. It all happened so quickly. It will be kind of difficult to keep up with the flow of things. Since we experienced the earthquake at 10:44 this morning. So that’s when the earthquake happened, the big earthquake off the coast of California. Afterwards there were numerous aftershocks. BUT FIRST I SAW REPORTS FROM 7.0 TO 7.2. And again, we’ll likely see these numbers move around a bit before all is said and done. BUT THE LOCATION IS PRETTY SAFE AND YOU CAN SEE RIGHT ON THE COAST THAT YOU HAVE EUREKA HERE. AND SOUTH OF EUREKA, OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA, THIS HAPPENS. AND A DISTURBANCE ALONG THE COAST HERE, 7.0. What they did originally was because this was a big earthquake. They issued a tsunami warning saying that the tsunami warning was high, and it was simply dropped because there appears to be no sign of a tsunami forming along the coast of California. NOW WE ARE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE ON THE NORTH COAST OF CALIFORNIA. IT IS MORE THAN LIKELY TO HAVE SOME DAMAGE, MORE THAN LIKELY SLIGHT TO MODERATE. IF IT IS, WE HAVE REPORTS FROM SOME PEOPLE WHO SAY THINGS HAVE BEEN PRETTY WELL ENFORCED ON THE NORTH COAST OF CALIFORNIA. SO WE NEED TO GET MORE REPORTS, AND MAYBE WE’LL GET SOME PEOPLE CALLING IN AND WE’LL GET SOME INTERVIEWS THERE. So let’s take another look at this earthquake. It occurred off the northern coast of California, at least around 7.0, and the tsunami warning was lifted.

On the map: The Northern California earthquake is the strongest of the year in the United States

See where other significant earthquakes have occurred.

Updated: December 5, 2024, 4:25 p.m. CST

Thursday’s offshore earthquake, which struck 61 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, California, is the strongest the United States has experienced in 2024. Video above: Tsunami warning lifted for California after magnitude 7.0 quake There have been 34 earthquakes in the U.S. so far this year. Most of the earthquakes were concentrated in California, where 60% of earthquakes occurred this year. The Northern California earthquake was classified as a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, although it had already been lifted twice. The second strongest earthquake to hit the United States this year also occurred offshore. The day before Halloween, the earthquake struck 165 miles west of Bandon, Oregon. PHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPiFmdW5jdGlvbigpeyJ1c2Ugc3RyaWN0Ijt3aW5kb3cuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcigibWVzc2FnZSIsK GZ1bmN0aW9uKGUpe2lmKHZvaWQgMCE9PWUuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il0pe3ZhciB0PWRvY3VtZW50LnF1ZXJ5U2VsZWN0b3JBbGwoImlmcm FtZSIpO2Zvcih2YXIgYSBpbiBlLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKWZvcih2YXIgcj0wO3I8dC5sZW5ndGg7cisrKXtpZih0W3JdLmNvbnRlbnR Xaw5kb3c9pt1llnnnvdxjjjzsl0w3jdlnnnnnnn0dodd1llmrhdgfbimrhdgfbimrhdgf3cmfwcgvylwlawdodcjdwjdwJ9FX0PKX0S8L3NJCMLWDD4 =

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Thursday’s offshore earthquake, which struck 61 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, California, is the strongest the United States has experienced in 2024.

Video above: Tsunami warning lifted for California after magnitude 7.0 earthquake

There have been 34 earthquakes in the US so far this year. Most of these were concentrated in California, where 60% of earthquakes occurred this year.

The Northern California earthquake was classified as a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, although that magnitude has already been increased twice.

The second strongest earthquake to hit the United States this year also occurred offshore. The day before Halloween, the earthquake struck 165 miles west of Bandon, Oregon.