According to the Los Angeles Times, there were no immediate reports of injuries or damages in the earthquake, and no tsunami warnings have been issued at this time. The USGS is saying that while the earthquake was strong, it produced little shaking on land.
The earthquake occurred in the Mendocino Fracture Zone about 100 miles off the coast of Eureka, near the Oregon border, at a depth of 6.2 miles. Visitors to the USGS website from Humboldt County reported some light shaking. (Ferndale is about 20 miles south of Eureka and 260 miles north of San Francisco).
Bonnie Brower, the owner of the Ferndale Pie Company, told the Associated Press, according to a Local CBS station, that she was getting something out of the refrigerator when the quake happened. She didn’t see any damage, but she did feel a “huge jolt.”
“I just felt this huge jerk and I didn’t know what it was,” Brower said to The AP. “Afterward, it felt like the ground was rolling, like you were on a boat.”
Lori Asbury, who lives in the Freshwater area of Humboldt County, took to her social media page and wrote that the quake woke her up, but her husband slept through the shaking. “Woke me up,” she posted. “I woke my hubby telling him earthquake is coming. I thought it’d be tougher. We felt big swishing rolls movement. Surprised it was a 6.8!!!”
