A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck California’s eastern Sierra Nevada on Thursday afternoon, sending strong shaking through a rural mountainous region and light shaking across much of Northern California. Lorri Martin, a deli supervisor at Walker Country Store, had been sticking labels on merchandise when she felt the shaking. But the shaking reported was not uniform, and some people in the East Bay and San Mateo County felt nothing at all. Jonathan Baxter, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Fire Department, said there were no immediate reports of damage. So they transmit the earthquake energy really well,” Knudsen said, which may explain why the earthquake was felt so widely across California.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 08, 2021 23:28 UTC