A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit Northern California on Sunday night. The damage was minimal and there were no casualties, reports say.

The earthquake is the largest the West Coast has seen since a 7.2 earthquake hit Baja California in 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported. There were no tsunami warnings.

The quake occurred off the state's northern coast in the Pacific Ocean near Eureka, Humboldt County, at 10:18 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Several aftershocks near magnitude 4.0 occurred closer to land. The largest aftershock reached magnitude 4.6, the LA Times reported.

Sergeant Brian Stephens from the Eureka Police Department said there were no indications of extensive damage. Stephen told the LA Times he was outside when the earthquake happened.

"My car was rocking back and forth," Stephens said. "I thought someone was shoving my car back and forth, looked around and nobody was there. Then I realized what was happening."

Eureka, located about 270 miles northwest of San Francisco, is an earthquake-prone area. There was a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in the city in February 2012 that caused minimal damage, according to Fox News. Another 6.5 magnitude earthquake in 2010 occurred offshore, however it was closer to land and caused minor injuries among residents, Fox News reported. Sunday's earthquake occurred farther offshore.

Raquel Maytorena, 52, told the LA times she felt her 100-year-old house tremble on Sunday.

"It just kept going and going, very slowly and softly. It was not violent. It almost felt like you were in a boat that was rocking," Maytorena said.

But Maytorena said this earthquake "lasted longer than any earthquake I've ever felt."

"The animals, they felt it. My two horses were running around out by the barn, and my dogs, six dogs, were ready to get out of the house," Maytorena told the LA Times.