San Francisco Bay Area Rattled by Series of Early Morning Earthquakes

San Francisco Bay Area Rattled by Series of Early Morning Earthquakes
Residential homes in San Ramon, Calif., on Dec. 31, 2025. Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP
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SAN FRANCISCO—A series of small earthquakes rattled the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday morning in an area that has had a lot of seismic activity in recent months.

The most powerful of Monday’s quakes was a magnitude 4.2 that struck shortly after 7 a.m. just south of San Ramon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.