{"id":46621,"date":"2017-10-10T05:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T05:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46621"},"modified":"2017-10-10T05:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T05:12:32","slug":"earthquake-magnitude-4-1-rattles-south-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/earthquake-magnitude-4-1-rattles-south-bay.html","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake, magnitude 4.1, rattles South Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earthquake, magnitude 4.1, rattles South Bay<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Earthquake, magnitude 4.1, rattles South Bay:- A jolt-and-roll felt around the Bay Area Monday afternoon jangled nerves in an area notorious for seismic restlessness.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 4.1 earthquake struck at 5:53 p.m. about 12 miles east of San Jose in Joseph D. Grant County Park, in a locked-up patch of rocks deep underground near the Calaveras Fault in a remote oak-studded landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just one short shock, like a bang,\u201d said Laura Lemay of Los Gatos, who lives in the hills above Lexington Reservoir. \u201cThen a little wiggle, and then it was over. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin Arnold, also of Los Gatos, said \u201cIt felt like a couple of loud shoves to the house, not sharp bangs like I\u2019ve felt in previous quakes. I\u2019m guessing more of a rolling effect on us. Not enough to warrant getting out of my chair though,\u201d he quipped.<\/span><\/p>\n

The epicenter, about four miles underground, was located in the south corner of the county park about a mile off Mount Hamilton Road, where the park\u2019s Hotel Trail bends into Foothill Trail.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority halted light-rail service after the earthquake to inspect its 29 trains and 40-plus miles of track, said transit agency spokeswoman Linh Hoang, adding that the procedure is standard. Nothing was amiss and service resumed by 6:15 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

In San Jose, Miriam Watson was sitting in her car in the parking lot at Sprouts on Brokaw Road \u201cand all the sudden my car started shaking\u2026. I jumped out of my car to see if the Earth was moving, but felt nothing. So I got back in my car thinking I had been mistaken!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There were no reports of damage in San Jose, said city spokeswoman Cheryl Wessling.<\/span><\/p>\n

A much smaller 1.5 earthquake was felt in the same region about an hour earlier, at 4:29 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

The jolt was the latest in a series of occasional tremors triggered by the restless fault, which routinely releases stress caused by the earth\u2019s shifting continental plates.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to USGS seismologist David Oppenheimer, based in Menlo Park, it is not unusual for the Calaveras Fault to have magnitude 4 quakes, which are unlikely to cause any structural damage.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates a 7.4 percent likelihood of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake on the Calaveras Fault in the next 30 years, and a 14.3 percent chance on the Hayward Fault.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Calaveras Fault and Hayward Fault are believed to be linked, which means that both could someday rupture together, resulting in a significantly more destructive earthquake than previously thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2017\/10\/09\/earthquake-magnitude-4-4-rattles-south-bay\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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