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California earthquake caught on camera
Courtesy Brett Durrant
By Neelam Bohra and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN
Brett Durrant was traveling along Highway 395 near Coleville, California, when clouds of dust erupted across the mountainsides next to him. Parts of the rock were collapsing.
“It’s an earthquake!” Durrant’s friend, who was driving, shouts in a video posted on Twitter. “The tires went a little funny, I thought maybe the road was just funny, it kind of wiggled. It wasn’t. It’s an earthquake!”
A strong earthquake jolted the eastern Sierra Nevada south of Lake Tahoe on Thursday, causing shaking to be felt throughout Northern California and Northern Nevada.
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Multiple earthquakes rattle northern California and Nevada as U.S. Geological Survey records magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Smith Valley
The US Geological Survey recorded a magnitude 5.9 earthquake, that was about six miles deep, about 3:50 p.m. local time
The earthquake happened south of Topaz Lake and about 20 miles from Smith Valley, Nevada near the Nevada-California border
It was felt across northern California including parts of the Bay Area and Sacramento and parts of Nevada on Thursday afternoon
Just minutes later, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reportedly recorded near Farmington in San Joaquin County, officials said
However, that earthquake has since been removed from the USGS website
There were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries. A woman in Placerville, Calif., captured the water in her glass shaking as an earthquake along the border of California and Nevada. In Gardnerville, Nev., someone captured images of food on the floor at a grocery store.
The 6.0 magnitude quake struck at 3:49 p.m. in a region about 250 miles east of San Francisco and south of Lake Tahoe. Its epicenter was 4 miles west-southwest of Walker, a California town of fewer than 900 residents. The ground was shaking pretty bad, and then everything started falling, said Carolina Estrada, manager at the Walker Coffee Company. Syrup bottles broke, dishes fell to the ground and the roof of the shop caved in a bit.