6.1 Earthquake Hits Northern California

EDIT: Updated to 6.1.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08...do.twitter

AMERICAN CANYON (CBS SF) — A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay Area early Sunday morning, centered in the Napa County town of American Canyon, injuring at least 70 people, severely damaging historic buildings in Downtown Napa, rupturing gas lines and water mains across Napa, Sonoma, and Solano Counties leading to multiple fires, plunging entire communities into darkness and buckling and cracking roadways on Highway 37 and State Routes 12 and 121.
At least 60 aftershocks were recorded following the earthquake, the largest quake to hit the Bay Area since the 6.9 magnitude quake hit Loma Prieta nearly 25 years ago. Initial reports had the earthquake measuring 6.1 magnitude. A significant aftershock of at least magnitude 5.0 is likely in the next seven days, with U.S. Geological Survey scientists forecasting a 54 percent chance. There is a 5 percent chance of another quake greater than 6.0.
Napa City Councilmember Peter Mott reports the library and the historic Chinese laundry building suffered significant damage, and bricks and glass are scattered across downtown sidewalks on Second and Third Streets. The old courthouse in Napa has significant damage to the brick as well.
At least four mobile homes in Napa burned to the ground, and six to eight others were damaged at the same mobile home park. The older homes sitting on blocks slipped off, rupturing gas lines, and sparking fires.
Water mains in residential areas are broken, but it’s not clear how bad the damage from flooding is.
At least 70 injuries were reported by hospitals around Napa because of broken glass and falling debris.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s automated economic loss software predicts losses above $100 million dollars.
All major Bay Area bridges have been inspected and concluded to be safe.
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As the first major earthquake to hit the Bay Area in the age of smartphones and social media, photos and damage reports quickly surfaced moments after the quake.
CAUGHT ON TAPE: Hercules Family Records Quake
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The CHP closed State Road 37 from Sonoma Blvd to Fairgrounds because of possible roadway damage.
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KCBS’ Todd Smoot reports a Safeway store in Sonoma has no power, and all employees evacuated the store while firefighters checked inside. The shaking was especially strong there because of the nature of the land being on alluvial gravel, sand and silt deposits.
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Callers to KCBS Radio reported a significant shaking motion in the city of Napa, lasting for an extended time.
In Contra Costa County, the quake was felt as a long, rolling, shaking motion with several peaks of movement lasting for an extended time.
People as far away as the South Bay and Davis reported being woken up by the quake, which was centered 6.7 miles beneath Earth’s surface.
Within minutes, more than 600 people had commented on our initial Facebook post about the quake.
“EVERYONE in Petaluma is up and chatting on Facebook. We definitely felt it!” said Ann Popovic.
“(It) Scared me. I’m still scared. Lasted a really LONG time,” said Valerie Gunnell on Facebook.
“Woke up south San Jose,” said Brianne Laiwa.
“Now that was a real earthquake,” exclaimed San Francisco Sunset district resident Matt Wandell.
As you might imagine, the rumbling set off an explosion of tweets:
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A lot of hate going on in the comments section in the article.

I felt the earthquake, but I didn't really think much of it and went back to sleep immediately.

Wait... why alot of hate?

Hadriel

Wait... why alot of hate?

Hadriel

Because a large majority of Americans want California to break off from the continental US and sink into the ocean. They don't like who we vote for and they don't like that we're a Democratic state is what I'm getting from the comments. They say that we're either gonna blame it on global warming, fracking, or both (Some are even including Obama in the mix). We have a fairly large population of Mexicans who crossed the border not through official means in the state, commonly referred to as illegals/illegal aliens and they don't seem too happy about that either.
California (especially the SF Bay Area) is very tolerant of gays while much of the US is still not comfortable with that, I'm seeing a lot of homophobic comments. They don't like how we shove it down everyone's throats through protests, parades, media coverage, etc.

Also seeing a ton of racist comments on how blacks will somehow blame this on white people and calling them out on suppressing black people. In which many rioters and looters will appear in Oakland, which is apparently known for our looting and riots I guess. When Occupy Oakland took place, many of the rioters weren't even from Oakland to begin with (and neither were many of the police officers).

I don't think many realize that while the earthquake was a rocker, it didn't really damage the San Francisco/Oakland area. It only really impacted the Napa valley. So I don't know why there are so many people saying that our stores look exactly look like Ferguson, Missouri after "the 6.0 'black community' earthquake" struck.

A ton of these comments annoy me but bigots will be bigots.

There are some more nicer comments within the huge boiling mess of hell though.
I recall one saying that because Robin Williams's ashes were scattered throughout the bay, he made a joke and the ground just couldn't not laugh.

huh

good thing I live in NY, kinda like non-EQ cali ya?

that's just slightly northwest from where I am =X (though didn't feel anything)

Wait... why alot of hate?

Hadriel

Right wing extremists

Aka american taliban

It was reasonably strong, but it was very short in duration, so not much damage hopefully. Felt it in the East Bay Area at 3am, but was just a "goddamnit! I just wanna sleep -__-" earthquake. And it was move in day for CAL so a lot of freshman that were from out of Cali just got their first taste of Earth shaking destruction!

EDIT: evidently it lasted a good 10 seconds, so epicenter should have received a good amount of damage. All it did was awaken me from my slumber, so I wasn't fully awake for the entire thing. no damage at all if you're a decent ways away from the center.

I didn't even feel it down here in south cali. Good thing most building in cali are up to earthquake building code

I didn't even feel it down here in south cali. Good thing most building in cali are up to earthquake building code

I picked the wrong day to drive back to Norcow.

I was quite shaken up, and some stuff fell off my tables, but I am safe.

Was felt as north as Sacramento and as south as San Jose. Most powerful quake since 1989 apparently.
It knocked things off shelves in my house. I was like holy pineapple that was strong. I'm like 15 mins from the epicenter and it shook for like a good minute.