"A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook the North Bay early Thursday morning shortly after midnight, waking up people across the region. The quake, centered in a rural area five miles east of Cloverdale in Sonoma County, was the second-largest earthquake anywhere in the 9-county San Francisco Bay Area in the past 12 months. The only one larger in the region since over the last year was a 4.3 quake that shook Berkeley"
"There were no reports of damage, however, in Thursday's Cloverdale quake, authorities said. It hit 21 seconds after midnight, with an epicenter 1.8 miles underground, in a sparsely populated area of ranches and oak woodlands. I didn't feel it, said Jonathan Alvarez, a firefighter with the Cloverdale Fire Protection District. I was sleeping. Sometimes when my dog jumps up on the bed, it feels like an earthquake. But that wasn't the case last night."
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck five miles east of Cloverdale in Sonoma County shortly after midnight, with an epicenter 1.8 miles underground in a sparsely populated area of ranches and oak woodlands. The event was the second-largest in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area over the past year, after a 4.3 quake in Berkeley that broke windows and rattled store shelves. There were no reports of damage from the Cloverdale quake. Reports of shaking extended from Santa Rosa to Ukiah. The quake occurred on the Maacama Fault, part of the Hayward Fault system. USGS modeling shows a 2% chance of a quake larger than 4.0 on the same fault system in the next week. Quakes of this size generally are not damaging but can be unnerving. The event appears unrelated to a recent swarm near the Geysers.
Read at www.mercurynews.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]