Small earthquake strikes under UC Berkeley campus
A small magnitude-2.7 earthquake struck Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday morning, with an epicenter under the edge of UC Berkeley campus.
A map from the United States Geological Survey shows the quake hit just east of the California Memorial Stadium.
The quake hit at 6:32 a.m. along the Hayward Fault with a depth of six miles, according to the USGS.
Residents in the area reported feeling the slightest shaking.
There was no initial word on damage or injury resulting from the quake. More information on this earthquake is available on the USGS event page.
A handful of major faults cut through the Bay Area, and many experts believe the 52-mile-long Hayward Fault stretching from San Pablo Bay in the north,
to just east of San Jose in the south, is among the most dangerous in the world as it passes directly through a highly populated area.
Due to the Hayward Fault's vulnerability, the USGS imagined the outcome of a magnitude 7.0 tremor on the fault in a 2018 report. The "Haywired scenario" estimates up to 800 people could die and 18,000 could be injured if the fault were to rupture.
Homes would be engulfed in flames, with an estimated 52,000 homes burning. Twenty-thousand people could be stuck in elevators and 1,500 could be trapped in fallen buildings.
Also on Tuesday morning, a 4.2 quake struck in western Nevada about 23 miles from Mina. The region has seen a flurry of earthquakes ever since a magnitude-6.5 earthquake rocked a remote region 35 miles west of Tonopah on May 15. Hundreds of aftershocks have followed.
See the latest USGS quake alerts, report feeling earthquake activity and tour interactive fault maps in SFGATE's earthquake section.
