CNN Breaking News-Damage, power outages reported after 6.5-magnitude earthquake off coast of northern Cali! (246 hits)
Damage, power outages reported after 6.5-magnitude earthquake off the coast of northern California. Residents are cleaning up the damage caused by a 6.5-magnitude quake that struck Saturday off the coast of Eureka, California.
At the height of quake-related outages, nearly 28,000 customers, most of them in Humboldt County, were without power, said David Eisenhower, spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
As of 11:30 p.m. (2:30 a.m. ET), power had been restored to 22,000 customers. The rest are expected to have power restored by early Sunday. The northern California quake, which ran about 13.5 miles deep, hit offshore at 4:27 p.m. (7:27 p.m. ET) about 33 miles from the coastal city of Eureka, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Nearly a dozen aftershocks followed, the strongest at 4.5 magnitude. There was no tsunami warning issued...
