(AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck the San Francisco Bay Area early Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquake struck Northern California just before 3:30 a.m. PST about 10 miles northwest of American Canyon, which is about six miles southwest of Napa, in California wine country, Leslie Gordon of the U.S. Geological Survey said. It's the largest earthquake to shake the Bay Area since the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta quake in 1989, the USGS said. The shaking set off car alarms and had residents of neighboring Sonoma County running out of their houses in the middle of night. 'A quake of that size in a populated area is of course widely felt throughout that region,' said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, 'The 6.0 is a sizeable quake for this area.'
Downtown Napa is trashed. #earthquake http://ift.tt/1qcpCHL
- czachos (@czachos) August 24, 2014
Earthquake at @SilverOak http://ift.tt/1l5oDsO
- David Duncan (@DavidSilverOak) August 24, 2014
Fire in Napa at a mobile home park. Water main break and firefighters without water. At least two homes destroyed. http://ift.tt/1tyGqZG
- Will Kane (@WillKane) August 24, 2014
Here's the 7-11 in American Canyon, which is now so busy ppl buying batteries, water that the clerk can't clean up. http://ift.tt/1vA1yPI
- Will Kane (@WillKane) August 24, 2014
Damage from #NapaQuake in downtown #Napa Vintners Collective http://ift.tt/YQnJXe
- Napa Register Photo (@NVR_Photo) August 24, 2014
The 6.0 M near the Bay Area this morning was the largest quake to hit that area since the Loma Prieta earthquake almost 25 years ago.
- USGS (@USGS) August 24, 2014
At this time there's no exact determination of the causative fault, though the Browns Valley section of the West Napa fault is suspected.
- USGS (@USGS) August 24, 2014
Whole Foods, Napa. #earthquake http://ift.tt/1tHRpiD
- Napa Valley Register (@NapaRegister) August 24, 2014
Group here at the 24 hour card room in American Canyon was in the middle of a hand of Hold 'em when the quake hit. http://ift.tt/1qcpFTZ
- Will Kane (@WillKane) August 24, 2014
Chips spilled across the table - everyone ran outside when the quake hit. One woman so scared her 'legs were shaking.'
- Will Kane (@WillKane) August 24, 2014
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