A moderate earthquake struck Northern California’s Mendocino County on Wednesday morning, triggering earthquake alerts on cellphones across a wide swath of the state, including the Sacramento region.
The magnitude 5.6 quake struck at 8:10 a.m. about 7 miles north of Redwood Valley, a small Mendocino County community of about 2,000 residents located roughly 10 miles north of Ukiah, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was about 70 miles north of Santa Rosa, 108 miles northwest of Sacramento and 113 miles south of Arcata.
The USGS said the quake occurred at a depth of about 5 miles…