State and local officials were working to assess the full scope of the damage, but early reports appeared to show that the quake did not cause major destruction.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake off the California coast briefly triggered a tsunami warning for parts of Northern California and southern Oregon, but the warning was canceled just before noon.

A rare and brief tsunami warning tested city and county responses in Northern California after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook part of the state

The rupture struck just southwest of the Cascadia subduction zone — the notorious offshore fault capable of generating 8.5 or 9.0 earthquakes, followed by massive tsunamis.

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported in northern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The quake occurred on the sparsely populated northern coast of California in a seismically complex area known as the Mendocino Triple Junction. It is where three tectonic plates meet and the Northwest’s Cascadia subduction zone and California’s San Andreas Fault system meet.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck 45 miles off the coast of Eureka, California, at 10:44 a.m. Pacific time Thursday. The shaking was felt across Northern California and raised concern of a possible of a tsunami — the danger of which the U.

A magnitude 7 earthquake struck along the San Andreas fault, triggered a now-discontinued tsunami warning from Oregon to San Francisco.