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Earthquake shakes San Francisco Bay Area

By Associated Press

July 21, 2015 | 7:16am

FREMONT, Calif. — Authorities say a magnitude 4.0 earthquake has rattled the San Francisco Bay Area, but no injuries or property damage is reported.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit shortly after 2:30 a.m. Tuesday near Fremont, about 35 miles southeast of San Francisco. The initial magnitude was reported as 4.1 before being revised down. It struck at a depth of about 5 miles.

A series of much smaller aftershocks occurred, ranging in magnitude from 1.0 to 2.7.
Fremont police say there have been no reports of damage or injuries.

The quakes come nearly a year after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck the region. The August 2014 quake was the largest to hit Northern California in a quarter-century. That quake killed one woman and caused about $400 million in property damage in Napa Valley.

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Magnitude 4.2 Earthquake Hits Oregon, No Damage Reported

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JULY 4, 2015, 8:19 P.M. E.D.T.

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Some Oregonians woke on the Fourth of July to a significant jolt when a magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck near Springfield and Eugene.

Hundreds of people reported to the U.S. Geological Survey that they felt the quake, which struck at 8:42 a.m. Saturday.

Usually, there isn’t any damage from quakes lower than magnitude 5.5, USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said.

City of Springfield officials said they haven’t received any reports of damage from residents or to infrastructure.

The Lane County Sheriff’s Office also said it had conducted well-checks on local businesses and no major damages or injuries were reported.

Sheriff’s officials said residents reported some mild impacts, including shaking furniture, an extremely loud explosion-type sound, items falling off walls and shelves, and woodpiles shifting.

The Oregon Department of Transportation, which conducted visual inspections of bridges in the Eugene-Springfield area, said there was no damage to any roadways or bridges.

The US Army Corps of Engineers said it too is doing routine inspections on the 13 Willamette Valley dams; no immediate damage has been reported.

The quake was centered about 12 miles east of Eugene. It was about 4 miles deep, which Caruso of the USGS says is considered shallow.

Utah was also hit by an earthquake Saturday morning, the USGS said. About 10 a.m. Utah time, a magnitude 4.0 quake hit about 1 mile south of Panguitch, Utah. The town is about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City.

The Panguitch Fire Department and the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office report receiving calls about the quake from the public but nothing about damages or injuries, The Deseret News reported (http://bit.ly/1G0zVCh). The quake lasted between three and four seconds, Fire Chief Dave Dodds told the newspaper.

The Third Woe: San Francisco Earthquake (Revelation 11:14)

Huge Earthquake Could Hit San Francisco Any Day: Report

The Huffington Post  | By Lydia O’Connor

 

Posted: 10/14/2014 4:01 pm EDT Updated: 10/14/2014 4:59 pm EDT

A new study suggests the San Francisco Bay Area is due for another major earthquake.

According to the data, four major faults in the region are moving along the surface and are primed to collide in a huge way. These stressed faults “are locked and loaded,” geophysicist James Lienkaemper, lead author of the study published online Tuesday in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, told the Wall Street Journal.

However, Lienkaemper added, “nature doesn’t tell us when she’s going to pull the trigger.”

The faults of concern, all of which run under urban areas, are the Hayward (between Suisun Bay and San Jose), the Calaveras (from Hollister to Danville), the Green Valley (near Richmond and Fremont) and the Rodgers Creek (in Sonoma County).

Lienkaemper explained to NBC News that if the faults are locked as they appear, one of them will eventually give way as the Pacific Plate moves past the North American Plate, causing quakes anywhere from magnitude 6.8 to 7.1. That’s right in the range of the Loma Prieta earthquake 25 years ago, which took 63 lives.

Lienkaemper estimates a nearly 70 percent chance that one of those faults will pop within the next three decades, and he named the Hayward fault as the most likely to rupture.

A scientist who didn’t work on the study confirmed that the findings seemed plausible.

“Given how long ago they had their last earthquakes, they are more than ready to produce a major earthquake again now,” Roland Burgmann, a University of California, Berkeley geophysicist told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Napa County is still recovering from an Aug. 24 earthquake, which killed one resident and injured approximately 100. Measuring at magnitude 6.1, the quake was the largest to hit the Bay Area since Loma Prieta.