We are following breaking news out of Northern California where communities along the coast are under a tsunami warning the area was reportedly hit by a 7. 3 magnitude earthquake just a short time ago we don't have a lot of details but we want to go to NBC News meteorologist Bill Karen uh Bill what do we know so far yeah this is a strong to a very strong earthquake Syria situation with the tsunami warnings in effect and people being told to leave the lower elevations down by any water especially by the coast so this is where the earthquake happened our computers we can kind of take them anything above a 7. 0 shows up on our Maps here and it looks like there's actually two I had one that from the USGS that was marked at a 7.
0 I know you're mentioning a 7. 3 so we'll have to get and sort that out but the bottom line is the strong the very strong Shake map is right near Crescent City here this area I'll get a closer view of that but this tsunami warning which goes up into Southern Oregon all the way back down to San Francisco Bay if there is a tsunami that was produced by this it would be traveling along the coast it would expect to arrive in San Francisco going roughly about 30 to 45 minutes from right now approximately 12:10 um p. m.
