"The clusters of earthquakes - the latest of which struck Monday - have all been underneath the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, which is close to the Calaveras fault. There were at least 19 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or greater on Monday alone, with the largest, a magnitude 3.6, striking at 9:07 a.m. That quake was strong enough to unsettle customers in the checkout line at a Safeway in Dublin, leaving shoppers feeling shaking for a few seconds."
"Before that, there were six earthquakes in the 5 a.m. hour, giving many across the region an unpleasant wake-up call. "Wee bit nervous," one person wrote on Threads, adding that she planned to stock up on water and earthquake supplies. "San Ramon is basically a massage chair today ... but like, the stressful kind," another person wrote on the social media site. "Dear Earth: we get it, you're active. You can stop now.""
Dozens of small earthquakes have rattled the San Francisco Bay Area over the last month, concentrated beneath San Ramon near the Calaveras fault. On Monday there were at least 19 quakes of magnitude 2 or greater, with the largest measuring 3.6 at 9:07 a.m., causing brief shaking in locations such as a Safeway in Dublin. Earlier Monday saw six quakes in the 5 a.m. hour that woke many residents. Seismic activity began Nov. 9 with 13 detected quakes, including a 3.8 event, and additional small quakes occurred on Nov. 10, 15, 17, 18 and 20. A magnitude 2.9 ruptured near Oakland's Montclair neighborhood close to the Hayward fault. USGS seismologist Annemarie Baltay noted prior swarms in the San Ramon area in 2002, 2003 and 2015 and around Danville in 2018 with similar characteristics and magnitudes.
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