
Newsweek reached out to the USGS for comment. One person in Oregon said they received the alert but didn't feel any tremors. Not good," she tweeted.Įven Oregon residents received an alert advising them to take cover immediately.


"Hearing lots of calls on the scanner for gas leaks, structural damage, power lines down, water pipes burst. Earthquake Brace + Bolt (EBB) was developed to help California homeowners lessen the potential for damage to their houses during an earthquake. It was real bad," one user tweeted, adding that she was roughly 20 miles away from the earthquake's epicenter. It was like waking up to being on the back of an angry bull. The quake was large enough to trigger the ShakeAlert system, which sends phone alerts to those in the vicinity of a dangerous earthquake, and USGS Earthquakes posted an image of the alert on Twitter asking California residents if they felt the quake.

