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Big One coming?...

• http://www.dailystar.co.uk, By Alex Hickson

The epicentre was 165km west of Ferndale, California, at a shallow depth of 10km according to the scientific agency.

No tsumami warning was issued, but a massive .

Social media users said they felt the California tremor in San Francisco, about 418.43 km south.

Antonis Papatsaras from the Bay Area city wrote: "That was a big one."

JP Rinylo wrote: "Totally felt the Earth moving under my feet".

Chasa Toliver-Léger ‏added: "I felt it! My building in the Marina has yet to be retrofitted so we wobbled back and forth!"

California is known to sit on the deadly .

Experts have warned that the fault line has been quiet for far too long and is due to erupt at any time.

Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Centre, told a conference in Long Beach: "The springs on the San Andreas system have been wound very, very tight. And the southern San Andreas fault, in particular, looks like it's locked, loaded and ready to go."

Seismologists have said that over the past 1,400 to 1,500 monster earthquakes have ruptured at 150-year intervals.