3.1-Magnitude Quake Strikes Near San Ramon
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A swarm of at least six earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 2.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
LATEST, Dec. 8, 3:15 p.m. Oakland is the latest Bay Area city to be jolted by an earthquake on Monday. The shake happened at 2:55 p.m. and had a preliminary magnitude of 2.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake also had a depth of 2.85 miles, with an epicenter located north of Montclair.
A handful of small earthquakes hit south of San Ramon on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
People in the Bay Area continue to experience the “flare up” of earthquakes into Monday afternoon, Oakland being the latest city to experience a jolt.
Several strong earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia on Sunday, eliciting a brief tsunami watch for the state of Hawaii. Per the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the first of the quakes, with a magnitude of 6.6, struck around 6:30 p.m. local time (10:30 ...
Just after 8 a.m. Bay Area residents received a MyShake alert warning of magnitude 5.9 earthquake hitting east of Carson City, Nevada close to the Lake Tahoe region. The quake also appeared on the USGS map of latest earthquakes. But within minutes the report of the quake disappeared on the USGS page.