Magnitude 5.7 Earthquake Shakes Northern California
GREENVILLE, Plumas County (CBS / AP / BCN) -- A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was widely felt as it rattled Northern California Thursday night, breaking dishes and shaking mirrors off walls. But authorities said there were no immediate reports of injury or serious damage.
The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colo.
UPDATE: 22 Aftershocks, Damage Reports Follow 5.7 Quake
Slight damage has been reported including objects falling from shelves and dishes rattled or broken, according to a report from the National Weather Service.
Susan Shephard and her husband Alan Shephard, who run the Quail Lodge at Lake Almanor near Greenville very close to the epicenter, said they were watching "The Hunger Games" on TV when the whole building started shaking.
"All of a sudden things started falling off the shelves, mirrors fell off the wall, vases fell down to the floor, everything started crashing," Shephard told the Redding Record-Searchlight. "It felt like the end of our world."
The Susanville Fire Department said it had received no reports of damage, and a Plumas County Sheriff's Office dispatcher said calls were flooding into its office but no reports of damage.
Thousands reported feeling the quake, as far away as the Bay Area and across the Oregon border, according to the USGS website.
Some residents of Sonoma and Solano counties took to social media to say they had felt the quake, despite being nearly 200 miles away.
The Plumas County temblor was felt in downtown Sacramento, about 145 miles south of the epicenter.
People in Yuba and Sutter Counties, south of Plumas, said they felt a rolling quake, according to the Marysville Appeal-Democrat.
There have been eight aftershocks ranging from 2.6-to-3.5-magnitude. The most recent was at 9:09 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
"People in the area felt a strong jolt, but it was not enough to generate serious damage, based on early field reports," Abreu said.
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