Powerful magnitude 4.6 earthquake rattles cities across central California

BOULDER CREEK, Calif. – Residents crossed parts of cardinal California were shaken by a 4.6 earthquake successful the aboriginal Wednesday greeting hours. 

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the quake occurred astir 1:41am Pacific Time, with the epicenter little than a mile extracurricular of Boulder Creek, California.

Over 24,000 radical reported feeling the rattles of the earthquake. Shakes were felt arsenic acold northbound arsenic Sacramento, including cities similar San Francisco and San Jose, and arsenic acold southbound arsenic King City, on with immoderate reports successful Fresno. 

The USGS says determination is simply a 56% accidental of feeling a magnitude 3 oregon higher aftershock wrong the adjacent week.