5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes San Francisco Bay Area

Note: all videos are earthquakes that have happened, and not in San Francisco that just happened.

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A 5.1 magnitude earthquake rattled the San Fransisco Bay Area on Tuesday, marking the strongest quake in the region in eight years.

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The U.S. Geological Survey stated the quake occurred at 11:42 am local time at a depth of 4 miles.

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The area is located about 12 miles east of San Jose and 40 miles southeast of San Francisco.

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According to the USGS data, the San Jose earthquake was the largest the Bay Area had witnessed.

Furthermore, the last notable event was a 6.0 magnitude earthquake near Napa in 2014.

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The earthquake today happened on the Cavaleras fault, which is a branch of the San Andreas fault line.

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Lucy Jones, a seismologist, said the Cavaleras fault tends to produce smaller quakes, just like the California earthquake.

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However, trains for BART and Caltrain paused operation briefly before working again at reduced speeds.

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There were no reports of serious damage due to the earthquake Bay Area, said Santa Cruz County on Twitter.

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Besides, schools and classes safely resumed. Almost 100,000 people got a warning before the event started via California’s earthquake early warning system.

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The advanced notice varied from two to 18 seconds, depending on the receiver’s location at the earthquake epicenter.

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Interestingly, a 3.1 magnitude aftershock occurred about 5 minutes after the earthquake.

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It’s pretty common as aftershock happens since the rocks on the two sides of the fault moved to new locations.

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