Earthquake Today: 2.9 Quake Hits San Ramon, Bay Area

A 2.9-magnitude earthquake hit near San Ramon, located in Northern California, on Tuesday, according to reports. Another 2.8 quake struck minutes later near Broadmoor.
Earthquake Today: 2.9 Quake Hits San Ramon, Bay Area
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Jack Phillips
11/12/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

A 2.9-magnitude earthquake hit near San Ramon, located in Northern California, on Tuesday, according to reports. Another 2.8 quake struck minutes later near Broadmoor.

UPDATE: On Wednesday, thousands of users on Twitter said they felt another quake in the Bay Area at around 9:30 a.m. local time. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was a 3.4-magnitude one.

The quake struck at around 3:30 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

It struck about 2 miles east of San Ramon.

On Twitter, users said they could feel the quake.

“Earthquake in San Ramon! Only a small one. Maybe a 3. Maybe,” wrote one user.

Another wrote: “San Ramon is the new earthquake hotspot.”

The quake hit 4 miles from Danville, 5 miles from Dublin, 7 miles from Alamo, and 60 south of Sacramento.

It had a depth of 4.8 miles.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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