On Sunday morning, residents of Napa, California were awoken from a 3:20 a.m. earthquake. The earthquake was a registered 6.0 magnitude. At least 172 people were treated for injuries, only three being in critical condition. City and county fire crews worked overtime to clean up the wreckage, and today the local schools were closed. The earthquake, occurring at a depth of less than seven miles, was felt as far north as Sacramento and as far south as Santa Cruz. Power and gas lines were both broken, causing many people to be without power.
The earthquake was caused by the fault lines underneath the Napa Valley. The last time Napa saw an earthquake of this scale was in 1989. Fault lines can stay dormant, like volcanoes, for a long time.
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