Earthquake shakes Northern California; magnitude 3.0 near Ukiah

Earthquake shakes Northern California; magnitude 3.0 near Ukiah

California's Redwood Valley awoke to an earthquake Saturday morning.

An earthquake struck Northern California’s Redwood Valley Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and a Los Angeles Times report.

The quake was a magnitude 3.0 earthquake at a shallow depth, and it struck at 10:07 a.m. Pacific time. The epicenter was about eight miles from Ukiah, and 104 miles from Sacramento.

Ukiah is located in Mendocino County and sits along the U.S. Route 101 corridor. It is the city center for Mendocino County and neighboring Lake County, and was ranked as the best place to live in California back in 1996 and sixth best in all of the United States by one author. It is the hometown of Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

The town is in the Ukiah Valley at an elevation of 633 feet above sea level. Ukiah sits nears the Maacama Fault, which is a geological fault that is considered to be the northernmost segment of the Hayward Fault, a subsystem of the famous earthquake-spawning San Andreas Fault zone.

Texas has been experiencing its own quakes that have been making news. An earthquake there earlier this week followed a 3.5-magnitude quake in January and one measuring 3.3 last month — a surprising amount of strength for a region that is not known for its earthquakes.

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