Earthquake shakes San Francisco Bay area

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2011年5月22日 11:52:042011/5/22
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Great Earthquakes In Diverse Places

Small Earthquake shakes San Francisco Bay area


    From correspondents in San Francisco
    From: AP
    May 22, 2011 4:16PM


PEOPLE across the San Francisco Bay Area felt the rumblings of a small earthquake last, but there were no reports of any damages or injuries.

The magnitude-3.6 earthquake struck just before 7.05pm local time (about 1405 AEST) and was centred near the city of Hercules at a depth of about 5.5 miles (8.85 km), according to a preliminary report from the United States Geological Survey.

The epicentre was about eight miles (13 kilometres) north of Berkeley.

The USGS National Earthquake Information Center said it received scores of reports of people feeling the shaking across the Bay Area, especially in Oakland and Alameda.

"It probably wasn't strong enough for damage, but it was widely felt by people," said Sheng Zao Chen, a geophysicist at the USGS

Police and fire officials in the area said there were no reports of any problems from the quake.

Many Bay Area residents took to Twitter and Facebook to joke that the mild tremors were the beginnings of the apocalypse, as the quake came about an hour after the widely publicised predictions of cataclysm from Oakland Christian media founder Harold Camping.

"Is that all you've got apocalypse?!" Erin Webb of San Francisco wrote on Twitter.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/earthquake-shakes-san-francisco-bay-area/story-e6frfkui-1226060564253#ixzz1N64es6eO

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