LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A Wednesday night quake centered in southern Lake County rattled parts of Northern California and resulted in hundreds of shake reports to the US Geological Survey.
The survey reported that the 4.2-magnitude quake occurred at 9:5 p.m. Wednesday.
Its epicenter was just inside the Lake County line, about a mile northeast of The Geysers geothermal steamfield and 13 miles south southwest of Clearlake, at a depth of a tenth of a mile, the US Geological Survey reported.
Survey records showed that it was followed about 40 minutes later by a 2.5-magnitude quake a short distance away.
By 11 p.m., the survey had received more than 330 shake reports from 63 zip codes regarding the 4.2-magnitude quake from around Lake County, the North Bay and Bay Area. Reports came in from as far away as Soquel.
Local residents called it a “good shaker” and “intense.”
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4.2-magnitude quake reported in south Lake County late Wednesday
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