A strong earthquake was felt widely across Northern California on Thursday and authorities briefly issued a tsunami warning before cancelling it within an hour.
The quake struck at 10.44am local time west of Ferndale, a small city in coastal Humboldt County near the Oregon border, according to the US Geological Survey.
As far south as San Francisco, residents said they felt a rolling motion for several seconds, AP reported. It was followed by smaller aftershocks.
Marc Buller, a lawyer who lives in Eureka, a port city in northern California close to the offshore epicentre, said he had experienced a lot of quakes, but this one felt unusual.
"It was an intense jolt. When the big jolt stopped, it felt like the house was on rollers," Mr Buller told AFP. "It was like when you throw a big stone in water and the ripples go out. It was like the Earth was doing that."
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known as Bart, has stopped traffic in all directions through the underwater tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland.
At least 5.3 million people in California were under a tsunami warning after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake, the US Geological Survey said in a yellow alert, which predicts localised but minimal damage.
More than 1.3 million people lived close enough to the quake that they could have felt it, the USGS estimated.
In the Santa Cruz area, phones buzzed with a tsunami warning from the National Weather Service that said: “A series of powerful waves and strong currents may impact coasts near you. You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now. Keep away from the coast until local officials say it is safe to return.”
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Building boom turning to bust as Turkey's economy slows
Deep in a provincial region of northwestern Turkey, it looks like a mirage - hundreds of luxury houses built in neat rows, their pointed towers somewhere between French chateau and Disney castle.
Meant to provide luxurious accommodations for foreign buyers, the houses are however standing empty in what is anything but a fairytale for their investors.
The ambitious development has been hit by regional turmoil as well as the slump in the Turkish construction industry - a key sector - as the country's economy heads towards what could be a hard landing in an intensifying downturn.
After a long period of solid growth, Turkey's economy contracted 1.1 per cent in the third quarter, and many economists expect it will enter into recession this year.
The country has been hit by high inflation and a currency crisis in August. The lira lost 28 per cent of its value against the dollar in 2018 and markets are still unconvinced by the readiness of the government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to tackle underlying economic issues.
The villas close to the town centre of Mudurnu in the Bolu region are intended to resemble European architecture and are part of the Sarot Group's Burj Al Babas project.
But the development of 732 villas and a shopping centre - which began in 2014 - is now in limbo as Sarot Group has sought bankruptcy protection.
It is one of hundreds of Turkish companies that have done so as they seek cover from creditors and to restructure their debts.
