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3.6 East Bay Quake Felt Throughout Region

Dan Brekke
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If you think you felt an earthquake at 7:05 p.m. in the Bay Area, you did. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that it was magnitude 3.6 tremor with an epicenter just outside the northwest Contra Costa County town of Hercules.

Note: The 3.6 shake was 65 minutes past the time, and much less Rapture-causing, than the earthquake predicted for this evening by radio evangelist Harold Camping.

Links
U.S. Geological Survey: Magnitude 3.6, San Francisco Bay Area, California
U.S. Geological Survey: 'Did You Feel It?' event page
KQED News Fix: At Harold Camping's Family Radio, It's Business as Usual on Air

U.S. Geological Survey locator map of May 21, 2011, earthquake epicenter.

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