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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of bluish California aboriginal Tuesday morning, knocking retired powerfulness for thousands.

The quake deed astatine a extent of 10 miles conscionable aft 5:30 a.m. ET adjacent Eureka successful Humboldt County, the U.S. Geological Survey said

It struck astir 7.4 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, the USGS said.

It was not instantly wide whether anyone was injured by the earthquake.

More than 55,000 inferior customers were without powerfulness successful Humboldt County arsenic of 6:30 a.m. ET connected Tuesday morning, according to online outage tracker Poweroutage.us.

There was nary menace of a tsunami successful transportation with the earthquake arsenic of aboriginal Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service's tsunami informing strategy said.

A fig of radical said connected societal media that they were woken up by the MyShake earthquake informing app connected their phones.

It comes astir precisely a twelvemonth aft a a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck offshore successful the Cape Mendocino country of Northern California connected Dec. 21, 2021. No large harm oregon injures were reported successful transportation with that quake.

That earthquake had struck astatine a extent of 5.6 miles successful the Pacific Ocean astir 24 miles westbound of the tiny assemblage of Petrolia on the rocky wilderness of California’s Lost Coast portion successful Humboldt County, the United States Geological Survey and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department said astatine the time.

This is a developing story. Please cheque backmost for updates.

Chantal Da Silva

Chantal Da Silva is simply a breaking quality exertion for NBC News Digital based successful London. 

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