4.3 earthquake centered in Berkeley shakes Bay Area: USGS

BERKELEY, Calif. -- A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck successful Berkeley aboriginal Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake struck astatine 2:56 a.m. and had a extent of astir 4.8 miles. It was primitively reported arsenic a magnitude 4.6, but was past downgraded.

The temblor connected the Hayward responsibility enactment was felt successful overmuch of the Bay Area.

The Shake Alert strategy was activated, and truthful far, determination are nary reports of injuries oregon damage, but it was felt by a batch of radical passim the Bay Area.

A representation from USGS shows radical felt the astir shaking successful the East Bay, but radical reported feeling the shaking arsenic acold northbound arsenic Santa Rosa and arsenic acold southbound arsenic Salinas.

USGS Seismologist Sarah Minson told ABC7 News this is what they see a tiny earthquake, adjacent though the shaking from it was capable to aftermath radical up each implicit the Bay Area this morning.

"Shaking is adaptable and it depends a batch connected your location, what benignant of gathering you're in, what benignant of onshore you're lasting on," Minson said. "However, this being specified a tiny magnitude earthquake, shaking from it is going to beryllium beauteous debased everywhere, surely capable to beryllium impactful for people, for them to consciousness it, for it to beryllium upsetting, perchance adjacent to sound implicit things precise adjacent to the epicenter. But successful general, we wouldn't expect to see, for example, structural harm from an earthquake this small."

The reminder from some the USGS and section archetypal responders is to get and enactment prepared for an earthquake larger than Monday morning's.