Tsunami warning canceled after massive 7.0 earthquake rattles Northern California, Oregon

A tsunami warning was briefly issued Thursday following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in California’s Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, the National Weather Service said in a bulletin.

Cellphones in the coast regions of Northern California and Southern Oregon rang out with an “Emergency Alert” at 10:51 a.m. PST.

Just before noon local time, the National Tsunami Warning Center canceled the tsunami warning — but evacuation orders were still in place.

The U.S. Geological Survey said that more than 5.3 million people in California were under a tsunami warning, the Associated Press reported, and that more than 1.3 million people lived close enough to the epicenter to feel the earthquake.