Vista Country Club - Two Quakes Wake Up Bay Area

(03-05) 09:59 PST EL CERRITO Two earthquakes chilled merely seconds aside click near El Cerrito first the following morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

A 4.0 degree temblor struck at the Mira Vista Country Club in the El Cerrito hills from 5:33 a.m., only tendencies moments once a 2.9 quake reach estimated at a quarter-mile into the northeast. Each quake have some sort of depth associated with concerning your five 1/2 miles.

Christine Cosgrove, who lives on Prince Street in the vicinity of Claremont Avenue in southeast Berkeley, claimed in which "a huge amount associated with your masonry fell down. For us, this particular ended up being the most powerful earthquake we now have felt with 22 ages in the house. Other objects fell off of windows sills as well as broke."

Susan Torres, 72, had been sleep if your quakes hit. She plus the girl family members live on Arlington Boulevard around El Cerrito, the location where the golf course is actually "in his or her backyard," the lady said.

"It woke us all up," she said. "It believed just like thunder under-going the actual house. I knew it absolutely was an earthquake immediately. I had been thinking in which your house seemed to be going in the future down."

The back-t0-back quakes gave employees in a Starbucks cafe on San Pablo Avenue with El Cerrito some sort of okay jolt.

"Everything seemed to be moving, to get a moment maybe," mentioned a great employee that said the girl presumed the actual tremble was "harder versus others," referring to your previous swarm regarding quakes centered around Berkeley very last year.

A colleague said, "It ended up being a big shake from the store. Nothing fell." He been seen in to become using stuff around stride, saying, "It ended up being an additional earthquake. We have earthquakes throughout California."

Albany, El Cerrito along with Richmond court arrest dispatchers gotten no reviews of injury or maybe important damage. In Berkeley, your water pipe at an condo intricate broke, leading to trivial damage, a new dispatcher said.

BART quickly ended program following tremble to help examin tracks. No ruin had been found.

A 2.0 degree aftershock has been documented throughout El Cerrito 30 minutes following on from the very first quakes.