Redding residents occasionally feel reverberations from strong quakes off the Humboldt County coast, like the strong (7.0) temblor that rocked towns south of Eureka to the Bay Area on Dec. 5, 2024.

The state added 79,400 residents over the past year, bringing the total population to more than 8.1 million, according to the Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM). That’s down from ...