The earthquake was recorded at around 10:18 p.m. Pacific and KTVU viewers say they felt it as far away as Redwood City.
"Felt the Eureka earthquake all the way down here in Redwood City. Friends up there say shaking lasted 30-60 seconds," wrote viewer Kristopher Rowberry on KTVU's Facebook page.
USGS seismologist Susan Hoover says more than 300 people have reported feeling the temblor on their website as of 10:49 p.m., according to the Associated Press.
By 11:15 p.m., that number had increased to 1300 people.
Mike Meltzer, a bartender at the Hotel Ivanhoe in Ferndale (in Humboldt County, the county nearest to the quake's epicenter), told KTVU that the quake rolled for around 10 seconds.
"I've been through a number of these," said Meltzer. "It wasn't a jolter; it was a wave."
He said the extent of the damage from the quake was a football and a bottle falling over.
As of 10:48 p.m. there were no reports of injuries and a tsunami warning had not been issued.
As of 11 p.m., five aftershocks were recorded by the USGS, which had magnitudes of 3.4, 3.5, 3.4, 4.6 and 2.9 accordingly.
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