A tsunami warning following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Northern California has been canceled. The warning applied to coastal areas of Northern California and Southern Oregon, including San Francisco. “The tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon. No tsunami danger presently exists for this area. This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message for this event,” the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center stated. The tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon. No tsunami danger presently exists for this area. This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message for this event. Refer to https://t.co/npoUHxX900 for more information. — NWS Tsunami Alerts (@NWS_NTWC) December 5, 2024 ABC7 News reports: Temblor CEO and Stanford Geophysics lecturer Ross Stein joined ABC7 News to detail what caused the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center to initially issue that warning and why they ultimately decided to cancel it. “It was a very weird, very shallow earthquake that involved a lot of vertical motion of the seafloor, which tends to produce more tsunamis, and that was the basis for that warning that we all received, but subsequently it turned out to be a larger earthquake, a magnitude 7, but a very typical garden variety event on this northern extension of the San Andreas Fault, which we call the Mendocino Fault Zone. In that respect it doesn’t move this effore up and down very much, and it would be very unlikely for this earthquake to produce a large tsunami,” said Stein. As for the possibility of a large quake? Stein says that’s always possible due to the location of this earthquake. “There is a possibility that something larger can occur, and this region is really the hatchery of large earthquakes in California,” said Stein. “It’s the most active seismic area in the entire state, just off shore Mendocino, and that’s because the San Andreas hangs the left, right at Cape Mendocino. There should be a blinking left turn signal there, and when it does so there’s kind of a crunch that goes on in the crust that produces lots of earthquakes.” BREAKING: All tsunami warnings canceled after magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the coast of California — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 5, 2024 The tsunami warning prompted evacuations following the earthquake. #BREAKING: Mass evacuations are underway in Northern California as Tsunami Warnings remain in effect https://t.co/hCS5esfZ5M pic.twitter.com/vivov3bwIw — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 5, 2024 Tsunami Warning CANCELED #CAwx pic.twitter.com/WIOaUP5geC — NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) December 5, 2024 Per ABC News: The warning had been in effect from Davenport, California, to Douglas/Lane Line Oregon, the National Tsunami Warning Center said. Police in Berkeley, California, had issued an evacuation order for parts of the city “due to a tsunami coming to West Berkeley.” The order was subsequently lifted after the tsunami warning was canceled. “Evacuation orders for West Berkeley have been lifted. It is safe to return to the area,” city officials said. The earthquake was reported at 10:44 a.m. local time, according to the National Tsunami Warning Center. There has been a “robust” aftershock sequence in its wake, Stephen DeLong, a geologist in the USGS Earthquake Science Center, said during a press briefing Thursday afternoon.