A magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Space on Tuesday, shaking buildings and marking the strongest quake the area has seen in eight years.
There have been no quick stories of harm or accidents.
The U.S. Geological Survey stated the quake struck at 11:42 a.m. native time about 12 miles east of San Jose at a depth of about 4 miles. The world is about 40 miles southeast of downtown San Francisco.
The earthquake was the biggest the Bay Space had skilled in years, in response to USGS knowledge and seismologist Lucy Jones. The final notable quake was a 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck close to Napa in 2014.
Jones advised KNTV-TV the quake occurred on the Calaveras fault, considered one of eight main faults within the Bay Space and a department of the San Andreas fault line.
“The Calaveras fault is one which tends to have smaller earthquakes,” Jones stated.
The Nationwide Climate Service’s Bay Space workplace stated shaking could possibly be felt at its Monterey workplace. Trains for BART and Caltrain briefly paused operation earlier than resuming at lowered speeds, the businesses tweeted.
Santa Cruz County stated on Twitter that there have been no important stories of harm following the quake. There was no injury to colleges and lessons safely resumed, in response to the county.
Almost 100,000 individuals reported receiving a warning earlier than the shaking began via California’s earthquake early warning system, in response to the California Governor’s Workplace of Emergency Providers, or Cal OES.
“Advance discover diversified from two seconds for these very close to the epicenter to 18 seconds for these in San Francisco,” the company stated.
Wealthy Constantine, the mayor of Morgan Hill, a metropolis subsequent to San Jose, stated he was within the kitchen of his dwelling when the “lengthy and regular” quake struck.
“We had a body in the home fall, every part was shaking however as soon as it stopped, there was no injury,” he stated.
A 3.1 aftershock adopted about 5 minutes after the preliminary earthquake, USGS stated.
Tuesday’s earthquake got here only a week after the thirty third anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake — a magnitude 6.9 quake that struck within the Santa Cruz Mountains on Oct. 17, 1989, simply because the World Sequence was about to start in San Francisco. The quake resulted in 62 deaths and prompted billions of {dollars} in injury.
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Contributing: The Stockton File; The Related Press
