Severe Weather Conditions and Alerts

Just past a quarter after 3am California time yesterday, a 6.0 earthquake jolted Napa California and surrounding area.  Comparatively, the earthquake is about 5 or 6 time stronger than most of the smaller about 100 earthquakes that have occurred in the state over the last week.  The deductions about magnitudes are made based on SCEDC at CIT studies.  The higher magnitude earthquake was near the San Pablo Bay area.  Where Nevada comes to a point on the western border with California, then about 45 degrees in southwest direction from there moving toward the coastal area, is in readily understood terms, where the big earthquake was.

Scattered earthquakes of lighter magnitude appearing in more clustered have occurred in the southern part of the state, over the past week.