Watch: Webcam captures exact moment 5.1 quake shakes northern California
Earthquakes shake the San Francisco Bay Area, and cameras caught the exact moment.
California webcam captures moment magnitude 5.1 earthquake shakes northern CA
Check out this California webcam the moment the magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook northern California.
MORGAN HILL, Calif. – The usually serene webcam view of Morgan Hill shook at 11:42 Tuesday morning as the camera filmed the exact moment a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck just 10 miles away.
"Image stabilization on!!" Wrote the cam's owner on Twitter.
(@PTZtv / FOX Weather)
So far, nearly 19,000 Californians reported that they felt the earth move, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was 8 miles west of Seven Trees and near highly populated San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area.
‘NOTABLE’ EARTHQUAKE SHAKES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TUESDAY
Earthquake shakes lights in Silicon Valley home
Earthquake is captured shaking a chandelier in a Silicon Valley, California home on Tuesday. (@Darla2022/ Twitter)
Lights shook, and picture frames rattled in this Silicon Valley home. Even news stations in Oakland felt the temblor over 50 miles away.
One teacher in San Francisco didn't look too bothered by the shaking as he took a video of his classroom. Thankfully, the kids were outside.
San Francisco school shakes during earthquake
A school in San Francisco, California is seen shaking during Tuesday’s earthquake. (@pelotembar/LOCAL NEWS X /TMX)
Just five minutes later, another quake struck nearly the same area, according to the USGS. At a 3.1 magnitude, only 451 people reported that they felt shaking.
So far, there are no reports of damage, just rattled nerves.