At the Spinning Wheel Diner in Lebanon, N.J., near the epicenter of the earthquake, the servers first heard the china loudly rattling on the metal kitchen shelves. Some customers eating breakfast at the red vinyl booths darted out the double glass doors into the parking lot but found that outside was shaking just as badly…
Some West Coast residents were jolted awake on Thursday when they received an earthquake alert test that was sent to their mobile phones at 3:19 a.m. because of a time zone mix-up, the United States Geological Survey said. The noisy alerts were sent to people who use MyShake, an early-warning app for earthquakes, said Robert-Michael…
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook Northern California about 12 miles west of Ferndale at 2:34 a.m. local time, according to the United States Geological Survey. By 3:30 a.m., poweroutage.us reported that about 60,000 customers in Humboldt County, about 60 percent of the total customers there, were without power. The oceanside county is more than 200 miles…