An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 shook residents awake throughout the Bay Area at 1:41 am early Thursday morning. The earthquake was centered close to Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains, based on the US Geological Survey. Shaking of some seconds or extra was felt in Oakland and San Francisco, with some individuals reporting a…
One individual has been killed after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Ternate island, damaging buildings and triggering small tsunami waves. The quake, which had a depth of 35km, occurred on Thursday at 6.48am native time, based on the United States Geological Survey. Its epicenter was 127km (79 miles) west-north-west of Ternate, an island in…
Seismologists name the sequence of small earthquakes a “swarm” and say it’s regular for this half of the Bay Area, which lies atop a spiderweb of energetic faults. They do not know precisely how or why they’re taking place, or whether or not they’re occurring on a significant fault — which can trace on the…
A sequence of earthquake alerts reported throughout Northern California late Monday night time had been the results of a technical glitch in a US Geological Survey system, not a cluster of seismic occasions, in response to preliminary info. Shortly earlier than 10 pm, automated alerts indicated a number of small earthquakes had struck inside a…
