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Quake: tsunami fear in California

SAN FRANCISCO: A major earthquake struck about 128 km off the coast of northern California on Tuesday night, briefly prompting a tsunami warning along the Pacific coast. There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries. The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at about 7:50 p.m. local time southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City and 480 km northwest of San Francisco, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Web site. The tsunami warning was briefly in effect from the California-Mexico border north to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, but was called off about an hour after the quake hit. ``It appears from the mechanism of the earthquake that this was a strike-slip event so the motion was horizontal, not the vertical displacement that typically leads to a tsunami,'' said Ved Lekic, a seismologist. Witnesses felt buildings shaking along the California coast.

— AP

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