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Jana Pursley, a geophysicist for the U.S.G.S., said the second of the two quakes was an aftershock. When it is right on a big fault, capable of a big quake, the chance that that following earthquake will be big is a little higher, but still small.” “Every quake has a 5% chance of being followed by a larger quake within the next 3 days,” Jones wrote. Lucy Jones, a seismologist and author, wrote on Twitter that the quake was “in the northern part of the Rodgers Creek fault,” part of the San Andreas fault system - and that Rodgers Creek had not seen a major quake since the 18th Century. ShakeAlert had warned that the quake could be as big as a magnitude 5.0. People in Vallejo had an 11.4-second warning before the quakes hit San Francisco got an 18.8-second warning and Oakland residents got a 19.2-second warning. said that by the time the ShakeAlert warning went out on people’s cell phones, the quakes had already been felt in a 9-mile radius from the epicenter. Husband had enough time to text us and make sure we saw alert. “Had enough time to get my kid and I under the kitchen table. “Bravo to the CA earthquake early warning system,” a Twitter user named Amanda Stupi wrote. The ShakeAlert early warning system sent out alerts that reached people moments before the first temblor. said the shaking was felt as far north as Mendocino County and as far south as Santa Clara County. People in Santa Rosa reported feeling two big jolts and the U.S.G.S. “I turned off the stove and said, ‘Guess I'm going to work,’” he said. Things fell off the walls, light fixtures broke. Lowenthal, who lives near the epicenter in a neighborhood rebuilt after the 2017 fires, said he was cooking dinner when the quake hit.

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The quake hurled items off of store shelves and cracked a store-front window at a liquor store near the epicenter.

He had no information yet about whether there were people needing rescue inside.Īcross central Santa Rosa, Residents reported broken gas lines and water pipes, sending firefighters across town to investigate the damage. Santa Rosa Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal said crews were sent to reports of stuck elevators at senior housing buildings and at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

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