Multiple small earthquakes near Hayward rattle East Bay residents
Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed four earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 2.7 to 3.7 hit in the East Bay over the course of Thursday.
The USGS earthquake tracker website reported the first earthquake of magnitude 2.7 much earlier Thursday morning at around 5:03 a.m. that happened about a mile and a quarter east of Hayward.
There was a pair of earthquakes with preliminary magnitudes of 3.2 and 3.4 that hit near the East Bay city late Thursday morning.
According to the USGS report, the first magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred at around 11:52 a.m. in the same general vicinity. The second earthquake happened about two minutes later and was slightly weaker at magnitude 3.2.
The temblors had a depth of just under four miles and were felt by over 2,200 people, according to the USGS. The quakes occurred near the Hayward Fault, according to the USGS and were felt as far away as San Francisco and Ben Lomond in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Those late morning earthquakes were followed by a fourth slightly stronger magnitude 3.7 quake just before 2 p.m.
So far, there have been no reports of damage.
