Californians fear 'The Big One' in aftermath of 6.0 earthquake

By Michael Idato
Updated August 25 2014 - 10:08am, first published 9:46am
Nina Quidit cleans up the Dollar Plus and Party Supplies Store in American Canyon, California after Sunday's earthquake. Photo: Alex Washburn
Nina Quidit cleans up the Dollar Plus and Party Supplies Store in American Canyon, California after Sunday's earthquake. Photo: Alex Washburn
Bricks and fallen rubble cover a car following Sunday's earthquake in California. Photo: Eric Risberg
Bricks and fallen rubble cover a car following Sunday's earthquake in California. Photo: Eric Risberg
The clean-up operation gets under way in Napa. Photo: Justin Sullivan
The clean-up operation gets under way in Napa. Photo: Justin Sullivan

California: As alarm clocks go, it is one of the cruellest that Mother Nature holds in her arsenal: the residents of San Francisco and northern California's Napa Valley were jolted awake at 3.20am, local time, by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0.

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