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A magnitude 7 earthquake hit off the northern California coast on Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large stretch of the California and Oregon coasts, officials said.
The tsunami was forecast to hit the California coast at 12:10 p.m. Pacific Time.
Some 4.7 million residents of California and Oregon were under the tsunami warning, the National Weather Service said.
The quake, which hit at a shallow depth of 10