at 11:54 a.m. The epicenter of the quake was an estimated half mile under the Pacific Ocean, about 40 miles off the historic Humboldt County town of Ferndale, near the Eel River Valley.

Fire and coast guard teams in Humboldt County staged a laborious rescue ... had to cling to a 60-foot bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The hiker was “barely holding on” with hiking poles ...