The three shocks Catastrophe damaged Damaging and destroyed Destroying homes and businesses in Humboldt County and injured Bodily_harm up to 356 people , but the single largest loss Earnings_and_losses was due to a post-earthquake fire Catastrophe that consumed Expend_resource a business center in Scotia .

Other strong earthquakes have affected Influence the same area , with some that were clearly associated Collaboration with the ( interplate ) Mendocino Fracture Zone , and others ( like the two shocks on April 26 ) were intraplate earthquakes that ruptured Destroying within the Gorda Plate , but events that are unequivocally associated Collaboration with the Cascadia subduction zone are very infrequent .