A 4.3 earthquake hit the Bay Area early Monday morning. The United States Geological Survey-USGS report says that people from Salinas to Santa Rosa and all around the East Bay felt tremors.. USGS indicated the quake hit at 2:56 a.m. Pacific time and had its epicenter in Berkeley in the vicinity of Dwight Way and Piedmont Avenue, close to the University of California campus. The quake initially was put at 4.6 before it was refigured to 4.3, which is standard as data are rechecked.
In less than an hour, more than 21,000 people reported that they felt the shaking on the USGS website “Did You Feel It?” . Reports came as far south as Salinas, north as far as Santa Rosa, and east as far as Stockton. No damage or injury were initially reported.
The epicenter is blocks from the Hayward Fault, which runs along the east edge of UC Berkeley and directly under California Memorial Stadium. “UC Berkeley is the only large university in the world that has a dangerous earthquake fault going through campus,” Horst Rademacher of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory wrote in a 2017 fault walking tour.
Light to moderate shaking for an earthquake of this size can rattle windows, toss furniture, and wake sleepers but is rarely intense enough to damage buildings in well-constructed buildings. Seismologists emphasize that aftershocks are likely to follow, usually smaller than the mainshock.
Authorities urged residents to make use of the morning as a safety check: secure heavy objects, stock up go-bags, and inspect drop-cover-hold on stairs. For official information and any updates to magnitude or depth once analysts take their final readings, go to the USGS event.
This is a breaking story and will be updated as more information comes in.
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