A magnitude 7 earthquake hit the north California coast Thursday, causing a tsunami a warning that was later canceled for much of the California and Oregon coasts, officials said.
Some 4.7 million residents in California and Oregon were under a tsunami warning before it was canceled, the National Weather Service said.
The earthquake, which struck at a shallow depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), was centered about 39 miles (63 km) west of the town of Ferndale, a sparsely populated part of the northern coast of the California, the US Geological Survey said.
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The National Tsunami Center issued a warning for a long stretch of the U.S. west coast, from Dunes City, Oregon, south to San Francisco and San Jose, California, 400 miles (643 km) away.
The City of Berkeley Police Department has issued an evacuation order for parts of the city located in the San Francisco Bay “due to a tsunami hitting West Berkeley,” according to an alert sent to residents.
About 19,000 customers were without power in Humboldt County — up from nearly zero before the earthquake, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office wrote on social media that the governor is now “meeting with state emergency officials and working to keep Californians safe.”
–Reporting by Brad Brooks in Colorado, Rajveer Singh Pardesi, Urvi Dugar and Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese and Sandra Maler