A small 3.1 magnitude earthquake about 50 miles southwest off the coast of Eureka rattled Humboldt County on Saturday morning, in line with the USA Geological Survey.
The tremor, placing simply after 9 a.m., was seemingly the most recent in a sequence of aftershocks alongside the North Coast in latest months after a 6.4-magnitude quake on Dec. 20 that broken many properties and left two folks lifeless.
“We've got had loads of aftershocks in that space,” mentioned Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with USGS. “We might count on these to proceed, however we are able to’t predict how lengthy that would final and the way large they might be.”
A 5.4 aftershock hit the world on Jan. 1, adopted by a 4.6 quake on March 22.
Residents in Eureka and Arcada reported feeling Saturday’s quake, which was about 6 miles deep, in line with USGS. There have been no fast studies of injury or risk of a tsunami.