NWS

At 1:15 p.m., Wednesday a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck roughly 253 kilometers off the coast, northwest of Bandon, Oregon, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The National Tsunami Warning Center has confirmed there’s no threat of a tsunami to the Humboldt County area (or to Oregon, for that matter).

Go about your lives. This is not the thing that will end us all. 

The quake’s location | USGS