(The position of the fault where the earthquake occurred has been corrected in this article.) San Francisco At 10:44 a.m.
local time on Thursday, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake near the town of Petrolia caused a tsunami warning that has since been canceled and covered the area from southern Oregon to San Francisco.
The Mendocino Triple Junction is a seismically complicated location on California’s sparsely populated northern coast where the earthquake occurred.
It is the meeting point of three tectonic plates, the Cascadia subduction zone in the Northwest, and the San Andreas Fault system in California.
The Mendocino fault zone is where the actual earthquake happened. Jared Mitchell, 25, was eating an early lunch,
In his apartment in Arcata, California, which is less than 60 miles from Petrolia, when he experienced a “jolt,” he told USA TODAY.
