'It kept going, and it was pretty intense and scary, frankly. 'We felt the shaking of the building, and we didn't know quite what it was at first,' said Rosen. We spoke to Sally Rosen, who owns a popular burger restaurant in Walker, near the epicenter, said her 2-year-old was napping in her arms in her home behind the restaurant when the earthquake hit. Kevin Cooper, a former spokesman for ski resorts near Lake Tahoe, joined ABC7 and described what he saw and felt as an earthquake hit at the California-Nevada border on Thursday. VIDEO: Video shows boulders scattered on NorCal highway after earthquake 'The tires went a little funny, I thought the road was just funny. The closure stretched about 40 miles from near the tiny community of Willow Springs in Mono County north to the Nevada border.Ī large amount of dust could be seen launching into the air from the rock slide. The road was closed because of the rock slides, the state Department of Transportation said.

Video shared with ABC7 shows boulders scattered in the road on Highway 395 near Coleville, a major route through the northern Sierra Nevada. 'A lot of people just at work basically.'īut even behind the wheel, near the California-Nevada border, was a spectacle. 'It was 3:30 in the afternoon, a time when people are probably sitting around, awake, attentive,' said Dr. shows cascades of dust from rocks crashing down the side of a mountain as an earthquake rocked the region.

Video taken from KOA campgrounds in Coleville, Calif.

California quake