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   A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the Northern   
   California coast Thursday morning.   
      
   The quake occurred about 100 miles off the coast of Eureka, near   
   the Oregon border, at about 6:50 a.m. There were no immediate   
   reports of injuries or damage.   
      
   The quake was about 6.2 miles deep, according to the U.S.   
   Geological Survey, which issued no tsunami warnings in   
   connection with the temblor.   
      
   According to USGS mapping, the quake, while strong, did not   
   produce violent shaking on land.   
      
   The morning jolt was followed by another quake. A magnitude 5.0   
   temblor hit at 8:32 a.m.  about 108 miles west of Ferndale,   
   which is fewer than 20 miles south of Eureka.   
      
   So far, there have been no reports of damage in the communities   
   of Fortuna or Ferndale, Fortuna Police Lt. Matthew Eberhardt   
   told The Times. Patrol officers, he said, will be looking for   
   any damage.   
      
   “The radio is quiet,” he said.   
      
   Eberhardt said he felt the quake while getting ready for his   
   shift Thursday morning.   
      
   “It kind of felt like a rolling than a jerking,” he said.   
      
   The quake off Eureka was felt from southern Oregon south into   
   the Bay Area. It was also felt inland in the Sacramento Valley,   
   the USGS said.   
      
   As of 8 a.m., nearly 2,000 people reported feeling the quake   
   with light shaking, according to the USGS “Did You Feel It? map.   
      
   Soon after the quake, Bay Area residents took to social media to   
   report the shaking. Some residents said they were rattled from   
   their sleep.   
      
   Bay Area Rapid Transit trains ran 10 minutes slower and at   
   reduced speeds in San Francisco because of “seismic activity.”   
      
   The north coast of California is one of the state’s most   
   seismically active areas, regularly producing major earthquakes.   
   There had been other smaller quakes in the area in recent days.   
      
   In January 2010, a  6.5 quake hit the area, snapping power   
   lines, toppling chimneys, knocking down traffic signals,   
   shattering windows and prompting the evacuation of at least one   
   apartment building.   
      
   But in 2014, a 6.9 earthquake in the same area, which, like   
   Thursday’s temblor, was miles off the coast, did little damage.   
      
   The north coast sits along the Mendocino Triple Junction, where   
   the Pacific, North American and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates   
   collide.   
      
   Seismologist Lucy Jones said the earthquake early Thursday was   
   on the Pacific-Gorda plate on the end of the San Andreas Fault.   
      
   Generally, seismologists say, a major quake like this will be   
   followed by numerous smaller aftershocks.   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquake-northern-   
   california-20161208-story.html   
         
      
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