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That Bump in the Night—An Earthquake
Less than six hours after the East Coast is surprised by a strong shaker, the Bay Area is stirred by a little seismic activity of its own.
Piedmont got a jolt at 11:37 p.m. Tuesday when a 3.6-magnitude earthquake rattled the Bay Area.
The U.S. Geological Survey mapped the epicenter a half mile east of Oakland Zoo near the Hayward Fault in the Oakland Hills. The quake had a depth of 5.6 miles, according to the USGS.
As of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Geological Survey had received more than 6,000 responses to its request for reports from those who felt the late night quake. 397 responses came from the zip codes Piedmont shares with Oakland; one came from as far away as Mammoth Lake.
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The quake came less than six hours after the East Coast was shaken by that region's strongest earthquake since World War II. That quake, centered in Virginia and registering 5.8 on the Richter scale, led to evacuations of the White House and Capitol.
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