A magnitude 6 earthquake struck in the Ring of Fire, just 750 miles off the coast of California, but no tsunami warning will be issued. A massive earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean shortly before 10 pm on Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), just a week after San Francisco was hit with a 5.1 magnitude earthquake. The quake took place deep into the ocean and only around 80 people felt it between Santa Rosa and San Francisco.
It is now the largest earthquake to hit the area since a 6.0-magnitude tremor hit Napa in 2014, which damaged buildings and injuring more than 100 people. The earthquake struck with a depth of six miles and was roughly 737 miles from Big Sur and roughly 750 away from San Francisco.
The National Weather Service (NWS) in the Bay Area said it would not be issuing a tsunami warning, as the national disaster was ‘considered too small and too far away from the coast to issue a tsunami product’ as it was more than 1,000km away.
Hawaii also does not have a tsunami warning. Sea level data collected by Deep-Ocean Assessment and Report of Tsunamis (DART) also indicated that the earthquake did not cause any ‘vertical uplift in the water column,’ NWS Bay Area reported. The earthquake took place in the Ring of Fire, also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, an area with a large number of active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
Last week, San Francisco was hit with a 5.1 magnitude. It was felt widely across the Bay Area, with residents as far north as Fairfield, as far east as Stockton and as far south as Salinas reporting tremors.
The quake was then followed by a 3.1-magnitude aftershock, but the National Weather Service has said it does not expect any tsunamis as a result. But neither the San Jose nor Santa Cruz officials have reported any calls of injuries or damage as of yet. (SOURCE)
