Wednesday, February 6, 2019
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SECOND UPDATE: 4.4 Quake Hits East of Blue Lake
Posted By Kimberly Wear @kimberly_wear on Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:34 AM
This morning’s earthquake was a magnitude-4.4 that struck east of Blue Lake, according to the USGS.
The 10:23 a.m. temblor follows a swarm of quakes that have hit off the coast since Friday while two more unrelated seismic events occurred in Cutten on Monday.
The largest of the swarm was a magnitude-4.5 that hit on Saturday.
According to the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group, the location of today's quake "puts it within the subducted Gorda plate."
A magnitude-2.6 quake in the same area followed 12 minutes later.
For more information, visit:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73138600/executive.
The 10:23 a.m. temblor follows a swarm of quakes that have hit off the coast since Friday while two more unrelated seismic events occurred in Cutten on Monday.
The largest of the swarm was a magnitude-4.5 that hit on Saturday.
According to the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group, the location of today's quake "puts it within the subducted Gorda plate."
A magnitude-2.6 quake in the same area followed 12 minutes later.
For more information, visit:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73138600/executive.
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