7.0 Quake Rattles Northern California, Prompting Brief Tsunami Warning
The last major damaging quake in Northern California, in 1989, had a magnitude of 6.9 and left 63 people dead and more than 3,700 people injured. In Southern California, an earthquake in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1994 left 60 people dead, about 7,000 injured and more than 40,000 buildings damaged.