UPDATE:
A tsunami warning issued for the San Francisco Bay Area has since been canceled.
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A 7.0-magnitude earthquake was reported in California on Thursday (December 5), according to the United States Geological Survey.
The earthquake was centered in Petrolia at a depth of 0.6 kilometers (about 0.37 miles). The USGS said it received 205 reports of people having felt the earthquake at the time of publication.
A tsunami warning was issued for the San Francisco Bay Area by the National Weather Service following the earthquake report. “Evacuation is recommended. Move to high ground or inland,” the weather service’s advisory system reads,” NWS said via the New York Post.
The USGS also reported a 2.5-magnitude earthquake in French Gulf, California, and a 2.5-magnitude earthquake in Cobb, California, at the same time as the Petrolia earthquake.
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