According to the center, “no destructive tsunami has been recorded,” It did, however, caution the public from returning to dangerous areas until local emergency personnel gave the all-clear.
At first, the USGS predicted that between just north of Fort Bragg and Eureka, over 150,000 individuals may have been exposed to earthquake shaking.
Aother person near San Francisco Bay said that it was the longest earthquake she had ever experienced, but a USA TODAY reporter in San Francisco did not feel its effects.
Public communications expert Traci Grant, 53, said that she felt her San Francisco apartment of 20 years “swaying” as she was speaking with a friend on the phone.
According to Grant, who lives in an older, converted building in the Marina District, “I felt like my entire apartment was moving in slow motion.” “I briefly considered getting my cat and purse and leaving.”
She felt it for over 30 seconds, “which was long enough to me,” according to Grant. Nothing dropped in her residence, she claimed.
Grant said, “It just kept going and going.” At the same time, it was a little thrilling and frightening. It wasn’t simply shake, shake, shake; it was more of a roll.
