An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 4.9 shook residents awake throughout the Bay Area at 1:41 a.m. early Thursday morning, in keeping with the United States Geological Survey.
The earthquake was centered close to Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Shaking was felt in Oakland, and San Francisco and so far as Petaluma. At a house close to the epicenter, a e book was knocked off the shelf.
Reports of injury weren’t instantly out there. People throughout the Bay Area acquired earthquake alerts, which exit for magnitude 4.5 quakes and above.
The quake was initially reported at 5.1 magnitude however shortly revised all the way down to 4.9.
Various faults run via the Santa Cruz Mountains space, and it was not instantly clear which fault triggered the in a single day quake. The 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake that struck in 1989 off the San Andreas Fault was epicentered close to Mount Loma Prieta in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
