"The shaking was most noticeable in the East Bay - the epicenter of the 4.3 quake was in Berkeley on Piedmont and Dwight Way - just to the south of the U.C. Berkeley campus. RELATED: 4.3 earthquake centered in Berkeley shakes Bay Area, shatters several windows Rattled Cal students woke up to the quake at 2:56 a.m., saying it felt like someone was shaking their bed or it sounded like a car crash."
"At a Sephora store on 4th Street, items fell off the shelves. Windows shattered from the shaking at several businesses in Berkeley and Oakland. BART slowed down trains to check for any damage on the tracks early in the morning commute. The wallaroos at Oakland Zoo reacted to the shaking by hopping in circles. And BoiChik bagels had to close their 6th Street location. A hand-scrawled sign said the earthquake blocked a gas line so they were unable to bake bread."
""It's been accumulating all along because we can see the motion across the fault of a few millimeters to a centimeter or two a year. So is there a lot of stress building up on the Hayward Fault? Yes and the question is when will it be released? The problem is all the small ones combined don't relieve enough stress to mitigate the chances of a larger quake occurring,""
The 4.3-magnitude earthquake on the Hayward Fault had its epicenter in Berkeley near Piedmont and Dwight Way, waking residents from Santa Rosa to Salinas. Shaking was most noticeable in the East Bay, rattling students and causing items to fall, windows to shatter, and businesses to close. BART slowed trains to inspect tracks, and animals at the Oakland Zoo reacted to the tremor. The Hayward Fault extends from just south of Hayward to San Pablo Bay. The last 7.0-plus event on the fault was in 1868. Stress accumulates at a few millimeters to a centimeter or two per year, and small quakes do not relieve enough stress to prevent a larger quake.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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