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And it highlights \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088125/as-america-turns-250-san-franciscos-role-in-defining-citizenship-endures\">a legacy of Chinese immigrants\u003c/a>, and the role they played in building American democracy. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A federal judge in San Jose has ruled that it’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/judge-rules-against-immigration-courthouse-arrests-e99e8e3a27647a716917217cc1c207ab\">illegal for immigration officers\u003c/a> to arrest people at courthouses. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A major earthquake in Southern California \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/earthquake-study-san-andreas\">is more likely than ever\u003c/a>, a new study has found. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Los Angeles Unified School Board unanimously approved a policy on Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-new-screentime-policy-rules-digital-divide-devices\">limit student screen time\u003c/a> starting later this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088125/as-america-turns-250-san-franciscos-role-in-defining-citizenship-endures\">\u003cstrong>As America turns 250, San Francisco’s role in defining citizenship endures\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was a high-pressure moment when Cecillia Wang stepped into the U.S. Supreme Court in April to deliver oral arguments defending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/birthright-citizenship\">birthright citizenship\u003c/a>. But, she said, she had the spirit of millions of Americans’ ancestors with her. “I felt a lot of the weight of all those hopes and aspirations, and really a belief in the promise of this country, that birthright citizenship is so much a part of the fabric of what it means to be an American,” Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the landmark case \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11423\">\u003cem>Trump v. Barbara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Wang — the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union — challenged \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078161/trump-executive-order-ending-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ruling-who-is-affected-can-citizen-be-revoked\">President Donald Trump’s executive order\u003c/a>, which seeks to deny U.S. citizenship to babies whose parents aren’t citizens or permanent legal residents. The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its highly anticipated ruling by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birthright citizenship is just one of the landmark legal victories won by 19th-century Chinese immigrants. Their court battles helped secure constitutional protections that remain at the center of today’s debates over citizenship, due process and democracy. As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, Asian American historians, legal scholars and civil rights advocates say those contributions remain largely absent from the national narrative, even as the rights they helped establish face renewed challenges. The semiquincentennial, they say, offers an opportunity to examine who helped build American democracy — and to recognize that immigrants were not only beneficiaries of constitutional rights, but among their architects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to automatic American citizenship was established in 1898 under the 14th Amendment when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">Wong Kim Ark\u003c/a>, a Chinese cook born in San Francisco, successfully defended his claim to U.S. citizenship after officials argued that his parents’ Chinese citizenship disqualified him from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a constitutional lawyer, Wang has argued many cases at the Supreme Court, but she said this was the first one to hit very close to home: Wang is a recipient of birthright citizenship, and her personal history made her role at the nation’s highest court meaningful for many immigrants and second-generation Americans — especially Asian Americans. “I can’t tell you how many people have told me, both friends and loved ones, but also total strangers: ‘I listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/trump-v-barbara-oral-argument/675665\">that argument;\u003c/a> it’s the first time I’ve ever listened to a Supreme Court argument. My parents, who are immigrants, listened to [it] and they’ve never listened to [one] before,’” Wang said. “‘And we’re all cheering you on.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang said the effort to overturn a centuries-old constitutional right has helped spotlight critical and often overlooked Asian American history, particularly highlighting how the Chinese community’s 19th-century legal victories helped secure foundational protections for both Americans and noncitizens. Many constitutional protections are now under attack by the Trump administration. Birthright citizenship is only one example. Early Chinese immigrants filed more than 10,000 lawsuits to fight discrimination and raised money to hire prominent white lawyers to argue on their behalf. Some cases reached the Supreme Court, and the resulting decisions continue to undergird many modern civil rights cases, including disputes over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050233/how-a-chinese-laundryman-shaped-us-civil-rights-from-san-francisco\">equal protection and due process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"Page-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/judge-rules-against-immigration-courthouse-arrests-e99e8e3a27647a716917217cc1c207ab\">\u003cstrong>California judge bars immigration arrests at US courthouses \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Bay Area judge on Tuesday barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, ordering an end to \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-courts-deportations-trump-administration-8b9fab5475c0da4c0f13f3381de91448\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">a practice that took hold shortly after\u003c/a>\u003c/span> President Donald Trump took office last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s reversal of long-standing policy against arrests at immigration court resulted “not from merely unreasoned decision-making but a complete lack of decision-making,” wrote U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts of San Jose. Authorities failed to address the “chilling effect” of arrests on whether people attend court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 80 years, Congress has commanded federal agencies to think before they act,” wrote Pitts, referring to the Administrative Procedure Act, a 1946 law that requires federal agencies to justify its actions. That law, he wrote, “does not require an agency to make the choice that a reviewing court might deem preferable. But it demands that an agency at least provide sound reasons for following its chosen course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling is the second setback for courthouse arrests since May when a federal judge in New York barred them at immigration courts. That order applied only in New York, while the latest decision invalidated the policy nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/earthquake-study-san-andreas\">\u003cstrong>New earthquake study finds San Andreas fault is primed for a big quake\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/shows/the-big-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">earthquake\u003c/a> is overdue along Southern California’s “critically stressed” San Andreas and San Jacinto faults, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JB033213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>new study\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As stress builds on a fault over centuries, it builds pressure that has to be released in an earthquake. 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They found that pressure has been gradually building since the last Big One in 1857, one of California’s largest seismic events on record. “The idea that all of those segments of the fault could have enough stress for an imminent future earthquake was already there,” said Harold Tobin, the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and a professor at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study. “This [study] puts it on more of a quantitative, rigorous scientific basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One area of interest is the Cajon Pass, the narrow corridor between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains. “Cajon Pass could act as an ‘earthquake gate,’ like a junction that either stops or transmits large ruptures between the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults depending on stress conditions,” said Liliane Burkhard, the lead author of the study and a research affiliate in the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, June 24, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its highly anticipated ruling on birthright citizenship in the coming days. The decision arrives as the nation prepares to mark its 250th anniversary. And it highlights \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088125/as-america-turns-250-san-franciscos-role-in-defining-citizenship-endures\">a legacy of Chinese immigrants\u003c/a>, and the role they played in building American democracy. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A federal judge in San Jose has ruled that it’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/judge-rules-against-immigration-courthouse-arrests-e99e8e3a27647a716917217cc1c207ab\">illegal for immigration officers\u003c/a> to arrest people at courthouses. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A major earthquake in Southern California \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/earthquake-study-san-andreas\">is more likely than ever\u003c/a>, a new study has found. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Los Angeles Unified School Board unanimously approved a policy on Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-new-screentime-policy-rules-digital-divide-devices\">limit student screen time\u003c/a> starting later this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088125/as-america-turns-250-san-franciscos-role-in-defining-citizenship-endures\">\u003cstrong>As America turns 250, San Francisco’s role in defining citizenship endures\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was a high-pressure moment when Cecillia Wang stepped into the U.S. Supreme Court in April to deliver oral arguments defending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/birthright-citizenship\">birthright citizenship\u003c/a>. But, she said, she had the spirit of millions of Americans’ ancestors with her. “I felt a lot of the weight of all those hopes and aspirations, and really a belief in the promise of this country, that birthright citizenship is so much a part of the fabric of what it means to be an American,” Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the landmark case \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11423\">\u003cem>Trump v. Barbara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Wang — the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union — challenged \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078161/trump-executive-order-ending-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ruling-who-is-affected-can-citizen-be-revoked\">President Donald Trump’s executive order\u003c/a>, which seeks to deny U.S. citizenship to babies whose parents aren’t citizens or permanent legal residents. The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its highly anticipated ruling by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birthright citizenship is just one of the landmark legal victories won by 19th-century Chinese immigrants. Their court battles helped secure constitutional protections that remain at the center of today’s debates over citizenship, due process and democracy. As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, Asian American historians, legal scholars and civil rights advocates say those contributions remain largely absent from the national narrative, even as the rights they helped establish face renewed challenges. The semiquincentennial, they say, offers an opportunity to examine who helped build American democracy — and to recognize that immigrants were not only beneficiaries of constitutional rights, but among their architects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to automatic American citizenship was established in 1898 under the 14th Amendment when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">Wong Kim Ark\u003c/a>, a Chinese cook born in San Francisco, successfully defended his claim to U.S. citizenship after officials argued that his parents’ Chinese citizenship disqualified him from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a constitutional lawyer, Wang has argued many cases at the Supreme Court, but she said this was the first one to hit very close to home: Wang is a recipient of birthright citizenship, and her personal history made her role at the nation’s highest court meaningful for many immigrants and second-generation Americans — especially Asian Americans. “I can’t tell you how many people have told me, both friends and loved ones, but also total strangers: ‘I listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/trump-v-barbara-oral-argument/675665\">that argument;\u003c/a> it’s the first time I’ve ever listened to a Supreme Court argument. My parents, who are immigrants, listened to [it] and they’ve never listened to [one] before,’” Wang said. “‘And we’re all cheering you on.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang said the effort to overturn a centuries-old constitutional right has helped spotlight critical and often overlooked Asian American history, particularly highlighting how the Chinese community’s 19th-century legal victories helped secure foundational protections for both Americans and noncitizens. Many constitutional protections are now under attack by the Trump administration. Birthright citizenship is only one example. Early Chinese immigrants filed more than 10,000 lawsuits to fight discrimination and raised money to hire prominent white lawyers to argue on their behalf. Some cases reached the Supreme Court, and the resulting decisions continue to undergird many modern civil rights cases, including disputes over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050233/how-a-chinese-laundryman-shaped-us-civil-rights-from-san-francisco\">equal protection and due process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"Page-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/judge-rules-against-immigration-courthouse-arrests-e99e8e3a27647a716917217cc1c207ab\">\u003cstrong>California judge bars immigration arrests at US courthouses \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Bay Area judge on Tuesday barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, ordering an end to \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-courts-deportations-trump-administration-8b9fab5475c0da4c0f13f3381de91448\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">a practice that took hold shortly after\u003c/a>\u003c/span> President Donald Trump took office last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s reversal of long-standing policy against arrests at immigration court resulted “not from merely unreasoned decision-making but a complete lack of decision-making,” wrote U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts of San Jose. Authorities failed to address the “chilling effect” of arrests on whether people attend court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 80 years, Congress has commanded federal agencies to think before they act,” wrote Pitts, referring to the Administrative Procedure Act, a 1946 law that requires federal agencies to justify its actions. That law, he wrote, “does not require an agency to make the choice that a reviewing court might deem preferable. But it demands that an agency at least provide sound reasons for following its chosen course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling is the second setback for courthouse arrests since May when a federal judge in New York barred them at immigration courts. That order applied only in New York, while the latest decision invalidated the policy nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/earthquake-study-san-andreas\">\u003cstrong>New earthquake study finds San Andreas fault is primed for a big quake\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/shows/the-big-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">earthquake\u003c/a> is overdue along Southern California’s “critically stressed” San Andreas and San Jacinto faults, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JB033213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>new study\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As stress builds on a fault over centuries, it builds pressure that has to be released in an earthquake. In the study, scientists found that the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults are under more stress than at any point in the last 1,000 years, meaning that a massive earthquake could be on the way. “Because it’s been quite a long time since the Southern San Andreas or the San Jacinto have had a large earthquake, we’ve accumulated a lot of stress,” said Kate Scharer, a co-author of the study and a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using geological evidence, including tree-ring records and sediment samples, a team of scientists created a computer model that shows how pressure accumulates along faults over time. Then they ran the model up to the present day to estimate how much stress is now building beneath our region. They found that pressure has been gradually building since the last Big One in 1857, one of California’s largest seismic events on record. “The idea that all of those segments of the fault could have enough stress for an imminent future earthquake was already there,” said Harold Tobin, the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and a professor at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study. “This [study] puts it on more of a quantitative, rigorous scientific basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One area of interest is the Cajon Pass, the narrow corridor between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains. “Cajon Pass could act as an ‘earthquake gate,’ like a junction that either stops or transmits large ruptures between the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults depending on stress conditions,” said Liliane Burkhard, the lead author of the study and a research affiliate in the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. The pass is a place where a major earthquake could jump from one fault system to another, Burkhard said. It could allow the rupture to spread farther across Southern California and affect millions more people across the Coachella Valley and San Bernardino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-new-screentime-policy-rules-digital-divide-devices\">\u003cstrong>New LAUSD screen time rules: No devices for youngest students, no YouTube for older grades\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School Board unanimously approved a policy Tuesday to limit student screen time starting in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision follows a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-screentime-policy-board-education-ipad-laptop-limit-proposal\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">board vote in the spring\u003c/a> that required the district to create a policy to set up guardrails on the amount of time students should spend in front of a digital device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials said that since May they’ve received feedback from nearly 19,000 members in the community. “Student focus and attention were the most frequently cited concerns, along with mental health and wellbeing, online safety, and privacy,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the Bay’s final news roundup of 2025, Ericka, Alan and Jessica discuss the recent series of small earthquakes in San Ramon and Sonoma County, Oakland’s decision to expand its network of license plate reader cameras, and new upgrades to the Clipper card system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999633/scientists-say-san-ramons-latest-earthquake-swarm-is-normal-but-residents-are-on-edge\">Scientists Say San Ramon’s Latest Earthquake Swarm Is Normal, but Residents Are on Edge | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067461/oakland-council-expands-flock-license-plate-reader-network-despite-privacy-concerns\">Oakland Council Expands Flock License Plate Reader Network Despite Privacy Concerns | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065714/clipper-card-new-bart-caltrain-login-next-generation-discounts\">New Clipper Cards Are Here, With Big Perks for Riders. How to Manually Upgrade Yours | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6347268510&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:03] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the Bay’s December News Roundup, where I sit with the rest of the Bay team to discuss some of the other stories on our radars this month. I am joined by Senior Editor Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:19] Happy Holidays!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:20] Happy holidays, and our producer, Jessica Kariisa. Hey, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:24] Hey, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra\u003c/strong> [00:00:25] Okay, so this is actually gonna be our last new episode of the year, and then we’re gonna be rerunning some of our favorite holiday-related episodes through January 7th. But yeah, it’s almost the holidays. It’s been really cold. It’s really dark. How are you all doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:46] I feel like every year I think it’s not actually that cold in the Bay area. My friends on the East coast have actual snow. It’s actually freezing there. Like it’s only like 48, 50 degrees here. And then I totally eat my words every single year. Like I’m cold and I want to just stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:03] No, but this year in particular feels like especially cold. I feel like I’ve had that conversation with like multiple people. Like it feels historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:15] I think it actually is historically cold and like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:19] Fact like fact-checked?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:20] Like yeah like fact checked, and I keep thinking to back to the episode that we just did about your PG&E bail because I know mine is gonna be So high from the usage of my heater because it’s just been absolutely freezing in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:36] Yeah, I felt like I was cheating a little bit because I brought my October bill, which is a little, you know, a little old, but I really have been cranking up the heat. As I mentioned, this is our last new episode of the year. Any reflections from the team here about the year of shows, the year on the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:00] Oh gosh, I don’t know if I’m ready to reflect on the entirety of 2025. Obviously a lot of news happened. You know, we didn’t do a news roundup in November because it coincided with Thanksgiving. But, you know, obviously the last couple of months, there’s been everything from, you, know, the special election to the government shutdown, to people on SNAP losing their benefits temporarily. And then even on top of that, you know, local stories like teachers in Contra Costa County going on strike, so, you know, the rhythm of the end of the year is kind of news-wise has been pretty turbulent, I would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:02:35] It hasn’t been ramping down, it doesn’t feel like it. No, yeah, I think this year has been a lot of really intense news, especially, as Alan was mentioning, the local impacts of a lot of things that were happening at the federal level, the way that immigration was snapped, with, you know, national parks. I think we ended up covering a lot of stories like that, but I think I’m also really proud of the fact that we were able to get out in the field. We talked to a priest in San Jose, Erica interviewed, food is free, Solano’s executive director in Vallejo, and also Perrin Kao in Berkeley. And so we were also able to do a lot of really Bay Area specific things, which felt really good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] Well, let’s get right into some of the other stories that have been on our radars this month. Starting with you, Alan, I feel like there just have been so many earthquake notifications all around the Bay Area, including in Vallejo, one that really shook me and my cat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oh, really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] A few weeks ago. So tell us about these earthquake warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Sure. So in the process of reading about this, including reporting from our KQED colleague, Ezra David Romero, I learned a term that I was not thrilled to learn, which is earthquake swarm. Yeah, I know. It’s like, it sounds very like Old Testament plaguey, you know, like God sent an earthquake swarm to like the Pharaoh. But that’s what large portions of the Bay Area have been seeing these last couple of weeks. In fact, over the last month, there were more than 150 earthquakes in the San Ramon area. Most of those weren’t felt, but many of them were, including 10 that were at or above a magnitude 2.5 just on December 8th alone. And then in Sonoma County, there was about, I think, seven earthquakes, including a 4.0 magnitude between Rohnert Park and Glen Ellen. So we’ve, I’ve been seeing our My Shake notifications, but there are many residents who have literally felt multiple. Yeah, small earthquakes that didn’t damage their homes, but definitely spooked them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] I’ve been having a bit of trouble trying to decide how much of this is actually just normal and part of life in California. How normal are these clusters of earthquakes that we’ve been experiencing here in the Bay Area? How worried should I be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] These swarms, how normal are the swarms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] Uh, they seem pretty normal. I think that a few things to know about earthquake swarms, they do differ from a typical sequence of earthquakes. I think most of us think of a sequence of earthquake as there being like one big earthquake, like maybe there was a 5.0 somewhere or a 6.0 and then, you know, several like aftershocks over the next few hours or the next few days in the case of earthquake sw arms, there isn’t like a dominant earthquake, there’s sort of a cluster of tiny minor earthquakes and then the fault tends to quiet down. So this, this happens. So I think just because there were more than 150 earthquakes in the San Ramon area over the last month, doesn’t mean that we’re going to get, you know, knock on wood the big one, you know, tomorrow or something like that. Watch it be the one tomorrow just cause I said that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] Oh god. No. No, I’m just gonna say that actually brought me a lot of relief, that answer right until the very end there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:58] I mean, even though they are minor, I feel like it would still freak me out. Have we heard anything from residents about these swarms and how they’re feeling about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] Yeah. So Ezra talked to residents in San Ramon in particular about the earthquakes that hit specifically around December 8th when there were 10 just that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:06:22] Well, Sunday night was rocking and rolling here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:28] One of them was a woman named Mona Epstein, and in Mona’s case, she felt several within several hours spanning from the very early morning to kind of mid-morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:06:40] I was woken, awakened around two o’clock. I felt a jolt and I’ve lived in Santa Mona quite a while. So I remember the last swarm of earthquakes we had. Then again at five o’ clock in the morning, shake the bed again, went back to sleep. At nine o’ o’ I was talking to my son on the phone a little after nine and this one really scared me. People were saying, well, it’s 3.6, it is nothing. I lived through the big one, blah, blah blah, but they don’t get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:11] Wow, my gosh. I just imagine this, like, poor woman being, like shaken in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:17] Yeah. And, and you know, there’s something about the number 3.6 in this case that I think is a little deceiving, like it doesn’t sound that bad and it, you know it’s not really damaging buildings, but when there’s several in sequence too, it also makes you think like, oh, when’s the next one, will the next one be bigger, especially if you’re, you know, literally in, in Mona’s case, like at the epicenter of like, what’s technically a small earthquake, but if you were close to the epicenter of it, it feels big.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] And people, I remember people were saying, this is just making me feel so on edge. I feel so irritable because it’s just, you never know if this is gonna be the big one or if it’s an annoyance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:58] And I didn’t know this, but there is an actual fault in San Ramon that is pretty active, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:07] Right. So San Ramon in particular is above what’s called the Calaveras Fault. It sort of runs underneath the city. Um, it’s also technically part of the San Andreas Fault as well. So, you know, this kind of thing does happen. I mean, as you heard Mona say, uh, this wasn’t the first earthquake swarm that she had, uh you know lived through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:27] I guess the whole thing with earthquakes is that, you know, never really know when it’s coming and you know just got to be prepared. But what about like warning systems? Is there anything in place for residents or people who might be affected by swarms to at least just have like a little bit of heads up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] So the MyShake Alert will send out an alerting signal if it is measured at, I believe, 4.5 or higher. So if everyone got a notification anytime there was literally any seismic activity, our phones would be going off. I mean, they’re always going off anyway, but you know, it would be a little too much. One funny detail from this story that Ezra reported is that another resident named Rachael Heys said that her Cat was making weird noises and hid under a table, like seconds before the earthquake hit. Um, I, I’m not endorsing that as like a tried and true early warning system, like having a cat, but I thought that was, that was an interesting detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] Well, my cat Remi needs a software update, because she was fast asleep seconds before that earthquake in Vallejo. Well, Alan, thank you so much for bringing that story. We’re gonna take a quick break, but when we get back, we’ll dig into some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:03] And we’re back with the Bay’s Monthly News Roundup, where we dig into some of the other stories that have been on our radars this month, and we’re gonna dive into my story, which is a spicy one. Oakland City Council voted this week to expand a very controversial license plate reader, and this happened despite concerns from both residents and privacy experts. Who are especially worried about how these cameras could potentially expose residents to federal surveillance. I don’t know if you both have heard about these cameras from this Atlanta-based company called Flock Safety. They’ve been in the news, I feel like, a lot this summer, especially after a few media investigations revealed how… Local police departments around the US have shared data from these cameras with federal law enforcement. That actually includes the Oakland Police Department, which the San Francisco standard had actually reported. In at least one case, California Highway Patrol searched OPD’s database for data related to an immigration and customs enforcement investigation. So the headline here really is that despite a lot of pushback by residents a lot of concerns from privacy experts. At this city council meeting on Tuesday, Oakland approved this new two-year contract with Flock Safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:38] What does OPD typically use these cameras for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] So these cameras are used in a variety of ways around Oakland. They’ve been installed in the city since the spring of 2024. There’s about 300 of them around the city. They’re used by both merchants and also the Oakland police department. Merchants say that they have cameras, you know, around Oakland Chinatown, for example, to try and prevent crime. And Oakland PD says they use the data from these cameras to help them with investigations. According to one OPD report that was reported on by the San Francisco Chronicle, the police department there credits flock cameras for helping investigators track cars connected to robberies, cars connected to human trafficking, auto theft rings. And then they also say that these cameras have allowed this county-wide task force to make 110 arrests related to stolen cars. Because of these flock alerts. So they say it’s just really, really helpful for them in doing their jobs and in responding to the kind of crimes that they say that Oakland residents want them to respond to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] Yeah, I mean, especially with, you know, some of this data potentially being sent to ICE, I can imagine there was a lot of controversy around this. Can you talk a bit more about how residents are feeling or if there’s any pushback happening at that level?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:17] I actually saw this specific description of the council meeting that I found really interesting. This is from writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall for the Oakland Review of Books. She wrote, quote, “‘It’s like I wandered into the comment section “‘on an NPR article and got trapped.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] Oh, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] That’s the vibe at the December 16th Oakland City Council meeting. I was among some of the most informed people I’ve ever heard, each rushing to complete their statements before their mic was cut off at the one minute mark. So she was really talking about this like flood of residents who are really concerned about, you know, in this moment that we’re in, where a lot of community members are concerned about immigration customs enforcement actions. And when also the city of Oakland is, you know, really coming out as a sanctuary city, many residents see this as like a move that kind of works against that. Council Member Carroll Fife was the only no vote and she really points to this scrutiny around data sharing with the feds and she sort of makes this argument that this really goes against the city status as a Sanctuary City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:32] Are there any guardrails against sharing data with the feds in this contract with Flock?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:39] So in order to address some of these privacy concerns from residents, Oakland City Council also adopted a few amendments to their contract with Flock. And one of those includes prohibiting any sharing of data with federal immigration agencies or any state law enforcement for the purpose of investigating reproductive health or gender affirming care. Which seems maybe a little specific, but there is literally a story of a Texas police officer searching national flock data to find a woman who had self-administered an abortion. And so that’s the concern that they’re addressing there. Another amendment includes a sort of approval system that requires the city’s chief privacy officer and also the Oakland Police Department’s information technology director to authorize any sort of data sharing relationships with other agencies. A Flock spokesperson says that any municipality has the authority to decide what gets shared or not, but I will say that there are still data privacy folks out there who say any data collected is data at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:09] And that is it for my doozy of a story. Jessica Karii, we’re gonna end this one with you. What story have you got for us today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:18] I have a story about Transit. So, effective December 10th, Clipper launched their 2.0 version, which has a bunch of really cool upgrades for those of you who use Clipper. Basically, there’s four major upgrades. First, you can immediately access funds in your Clipper account. You don’t have to wait a few days, which was something that people had to do before sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:46] I mean, that is like… ne of the most annoying things to me about the Clipper. Because it’s like we’re in the Bay Area. We’re in- It should be immediate. Yeah, we’re the tech capital of the world. What do you mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:56] No, I’m with you. So that’s huge. The second is you can now have like family accounts. So basically, users will be able to manage more than one Clipper card. So a parent, for example, could add money to their kid’s account, just making things a little bit smoother on that end. Another big thing is now you can use contactless payment with a debit or credit card. I think we actually We talked about this in another roundup. About BART launching this towards the end of the summer, and now Clippers launched it, so that’s pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:30] Meaning that you can now tap to pay with a credit card or debit card on any transit system that uses Clipper, right? So that includes Muni, Caltrain, et cetera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:39] Exactly. Yeah. And the one that I’m most interested in as someone who takes two transit agencies to work is that now when you transfer from one agency to another, you can get a discount of up to $2.85 on your second ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:59] As long as your transfer happens within two hours of your first ride. So that’s gonna lead to quite a bit of savings for some people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:06] Wow, I did not know about that last one, but I also take two transit systems to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:11] Yeah, and there’s actually a really cool website called clipper2.hikingbytransit.com where you can actually put in your transit information and it’ll tell you how much you’re expected to save over a year of commuting, which they’re calculating at about 500 trips. And so I put mine in and I’m going to save over $1,000, which is pretty cool. Which is pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:35] Oh my gosh, what are you gonna do with that thousand dollar?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:38] I don’t know, I don’t know, maybe I’ll buy something, maybe i’ll go on a trip. Now I have that extra money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:45] Does everyone already have this? Has this automatically been implemented for everybody?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:49] Great question. So the whole Clipper 2.0 update is gonna take about eight to 12 weeks. It will happen automatically for everybody, but it will take some time. But you can manually update the app yourself by going to the Clipper website or going through however you have the app, if you have it on your phone, to get the update faster. That said, when… Clipper 2.0 first launched. There were some glitches and people were having issues updating. So there was a little frustration around that. It’s now been over a week. I was able to update mine pretty smoothly. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:03] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the Bay’s December News Roundup, where I sit with the rest of the Bay team to discuss some of the other stories on our radars this month. I am joined by Senior Editor Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:19] Happy Holidays!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:20] Happy holidays, and our producer, Jessica Kariisa. Hey, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:24] Hey, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra\u003c/strong> [00:00:25] Okay, so this is actually gonna be our last new episode of the year, and then we’re gonna be rerunning some of our favorite holiday-related episodes through January 7th. But yeah, it’s almost the holidays. It’s been really cold. It’s really dark. How are you all doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:46] I feel like every year I think it’s not actually that cold in the Bay area. My friends on the East coast have actual snow. It’s actually freezing there. Like it’s only like 48, 50 degrees here. And then I totally eat my words every single year. Like I’m cold and I want to just stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:03] No, but this year in particular feels like especially cold. I feel like I’ve had that conversation with like multiple people. Like it feels historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:15] I think it actually is historically cold and like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:19] Fact like fact-checked?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:20] Like yeah like fact checked, and I keep thinking to back to the episode that we just did about your PG&E bail because I know mine is gonna be So high from the usage of my heater because it’s just been absolutely freezing in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:36] Yeah, I felt like I was cheating a little bit because I brought my October bill, which is a little, you know, a little old, but I really have been cranking up the heat. As I mentioned, this is our last new episode of the year. 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No, yeah, I think this year has been a lot of really intense news, especially, as Alan was mentioning, the local impacts of a lot of things that were happening at the federal level, the way that immigration was snapped, with, you know, national parks. I think we ended up covering a lot of stories like that, but I think I’m also really proud of the fact that we were able to get out in the field. We talked to a priest in San Jose, Erica interviewed, food is free, Solano’s executive director in Vallejo, and also Perrin Kao in Berkeley. And so we were also able to do a lot of really Bay Area specific things, which felt really good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] Well, let’s get right into some of the other stories that have been on our radars this month. Starting with you, Alan, I feel like there just have been so many earthquake notifications all around the Bay Area, including in Vallejo, one that really shook me and my cat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oh, really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] A few weeks ago. So tell us about these earthquake warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Sure. So in the process of reading about this, including reporting from our KQED colleague, Ezra David Romero, I learned a term that I was not thrilled to learn, which is earthquake swarm. Yeah, I know. It’s like, it sounds very like Old Testament plaguey, you know, like God sent an earthquake swarm to like the Pharaoh. But that’s what large portions of the Bay Area have been seeing these last couple of weeks. In fact, over the last month, there were more than 150 earthquakes in the San Ramon area. Most of those weren’t felt, but many of them were, including 10 that were at or above a magnitude 2.5 just on December 8th alone. And then in Sonoma County, there was about, I think, seven earthquakes, including a 4.0 magnitude between Rohnert Park and Glen Ellen. So we’ve, I’ve been seeing our My Shake notifications, but there are many residents who have literally felt multiple. Yeah, small earthquakes that didn’t damage their homes, but definitely spooked them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] I’ve been having a bit of trouble trying to decide how much of this is actually just normal and part of life in California. How normal are these clusters of earthquakes that we’ve been experiencing here in the Bay Area? How worried should I be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] These swarms, how normal are the swarms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] Uh, they seem pretty normal. I think that a few things to know about earthquake swarms, they do differ from a typical sequence of earthquakes. I think most of us think of a sequence of earthquake as there being like one big earthquake, like maybe there was a 5.0 somewhere or a 6.0 and then, you know, several like aftershocks over the next few hours or the next few days in the case of earthquake sw arms, there isn’t like a dominant earthquake, there’s sort of a cluster of tiny minor earthquakes and then the fault tends to quiet down. So this, this happens. So I think just because there were more than 150 earthquakes in the San Ramon area over the last month, doesn’t mean that we’re going to get, you know, knock on wood the big one, you know, tomorrow or something like that. Watch it be the one tomorrow just cause I said that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] Oh god. No. No, I’m just gonna say that actually brought me a lot of relief, that answer right until the very end there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:58] I mean, even though they are minor, I feel like it would still freak me out. Have we heard anything from residents about these swarms and how they’re feeling about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] Yeah. So Ezra talked to residents in San Ramon in particular about the earthquakes that hit specifically around December 8th when there were 10 just that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:06:22] Well, Sunday night was rocking and rolling here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:28] One of them was a woman named Mona Epstein, and in Mona’s case, she felt several within several hours spanning from the very early morning to kind of mid-morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:06:40] I was woken, awakened around two o’clock. I felt a jolt and I’ve lived in Santa Mona quite a while. So I remember the last swarm of earthquakes we had. Then again at five o’ clock in the morning, shake the bed again, went back to sleep. At nine o’ o’ I was talking to my son on the phone a little after nine and this one really scared me. People were saying, well, it’s 3.6, it is nothing. I lived through the big one, blah, blah blah, but they don’t get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:11] Wow, my gosh. I just imagine this, like, poor woman being, like shaken in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:17] Yeah. And, and you know, there’s something about the number 3.6 in this case that I think is a little deceiving, like it doesn’t sound that bad and it, you know it’s not really damaging buildings, but when there’s several in sequence too, it also makes you think like, oh, when’s the next one, will the next one be bigger, especially if you’re, you know, literally in, in Mona’s case, like at the epicenter of like, what’s technically a small earthquake, but if you were close to the epicenter of it, it feels big.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] And people, I remember people were saying, this is just making me feel so on edge. I feel so irritable because it’s just, you never know if this is gonna be the big one or if it’s an annoyance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:58] And I didn’t know this, but there is an actual fault in San Ramon that is pretty active, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:07] Right. So San Ramon in particular is above what’s called the Calaveras Fault. It sort of runs underneath the city. Um, it’s also technically part of the San Andreas Fault as well. So, you know, this kind of thing does happen. I mean, as you heard Mona say, uh, this wasn’t the first earthquake swarm that she had, uh you know lived through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:27] I guess the whole thing with earthquakes is that, you know, never really know when it’s coming and you know just got to be prepared. But what about like warning systems? Is there anything in place for residents or people who might be affected by swarms to at least just have like a little bit of heads up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] So the MyShake Alert will send out an alerting signal if it is measured at, I believe, 4.5 or higher. So if everyone got a notification anytime there was literally any seismic activity, our phones would be going off. I mean, they’re always going off anyway, but you know, it would be a little too much. One funny detail from this story that Ezra reported is that another resident named Rachael Heys said that her Cat was making weird noises and hid under a table, like seconds before the earthquake hit. Um, I, I’m not endorsing that as like a tried and true early warning system, like having a cat, but I thought that was, that was an interesting detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] Well, my cat Remi needs a software update, because she was fast asleep seconds before that earthquake in Vallejo. Well, Alan, thank you so much for bringing that story. We’re gonna take a quick break, but when we get back, we’ll dig into some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:03] And we’re back with the Bay’s Monthly News Roundup, where we dig into some of the other stories that have been on our radars this month, and we’re gonna dive into my story, which is a spicy one. Oakland City Council voted this week to expand a very controversial license plate reader, and this happened despite concerns from both residents and privacy experts. Who are especially worried about how these cameras could potentially expose residents to federal surveillance. I don’t know if you both have heard about these cameras from this Atlanta-based company called Flock Safety. They’ve been in the news, I feel like, a lot this summer, especially after a few media investigations revealed how… Local police departments around the US have shared data from these cameras with federal law enforcement. That actually includes the Oakland Police Department, which the San Francisco standard had actually reported. In at least one case, California Highway Patrol searched OPD’s database for data related to an immigration and customs enforcement investigation. So the headline here really is that despite a lot of pushback by residents a lot of concerns from privacy experts. At this city council meeting on Tuesday, Oakland approved this new two-year contract with Flock Safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:38] What does OPD typically use these cameras for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] So these cameras are used in a variety of ways around Oakland. They’ve been installed in the city since the spring of 2024. There’s about 300 of them around the city. They’re used by both merchants and also the Oakland police department. Merchants say that they have cameras, you know, around Oakland Chinatown, for example, to try and prevent crime. And Oakland PD says they use the data from these cameras to help them with investigations. According to one OPD report that was reported on by the San Francisco Chronicle, the police department there credits flock cameras for helping investigators track cars connected to robberies, cars connected to human trafficking, auto theft rings. And then they also say that these cameras have allowed this county-wide task force to make 110 arrests related to stolen cars. Because of these flock alerts. So they say it’s just really, really helpful for them in doing their jobs and in responding to the kind of crimes that they say that Oakland residents want them to respond to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] Yeah, I mean, especially with, you know, some of this data potentially being sent to ICE, I can imagine there was a lot of controversy around this. Can you talk a bit more about how residents are feeling or if there’s any pushback happening at that level?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:17] I actually saw this specific description of the council meeting that I found really interesting. This is from writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall for the Oakland Review of Books. She wrote, quote, “‘It’s like I wandered into the comment section “‘on an NPR article and got trapped.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] Oh, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] That’s the vibe at the December 16th Oakland City Council meeting. I was among some of the most informed people I’ve ever heard, each rushing to complete their statements before their mic was cut off at the one minute mark. So she was really talking about this like flood of residents who are really concerned about, you know, in this moment that we’re in, where a lot of community members are concerned about immigration customs enforcement actions. And when also the city of Oakland is, you know, really coming out as a sanctuary city, many residents see this as like a move that kind of works against that. Council Member Carroll Fife was the only no vote and she really points to this scrutiny around data sharing with the feds and she sort of makes this argument that this really goes against the city status as a Sanctuary City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:32] Are there any guardrails against sharing data with the feds in this contract with Flock?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:39] So in order to address some of these privacy concerns from residents, Oakland City Council also adopted a few amendments to their contract with Flock. And one of those includes prohibiting any sharing of data with federal immigration agencies or any state law enforcement for the purpose of investigating reproductive health or gender affirming care. Which seems maybe a little specific, but there is literally a story of a Texas police officer searching national flock data to find a woman who had self-administered an abortion. And so that’s the concern that they’re addressing there. Another amendment includes a sort of approval system that requires the city’s chief privacy officer and also the Oakland Police Department’s information technology director to authorize any sort of data sharing relationships with other agencies. A Flock spokesperson says that any municipality has the authority to decide what gets shared or not, but I will say that there are still data privacy folks out there who say any data collected is data at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:09] And that is it for my doozy of a story. Jessica Karii, we’re gonna end this one with you. What story have you got for us today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:18] I have a story about Transit. So, effective December 10th, Clipper launched their 2.0 version, which has a bunch of really cool upgrades for those of you who use Clipper. Basically, there’s four major upgrades. First, you can immediately access funds in your Clipper account. You don’t have to wait a few days, which was something that people had to do before sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:46] I mean, that is like… ne of the most annoying things to me about the Clipper. Because it’s like we’re in the Bay Area. We’re in- It should be immediate. Yeah, we’re the tech capital of the world. What do you mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:56] No, I’m with you. So that’s huge. The second is you can now have like family accounts. So basically, users will be able to manage more than one Clipper card. So a parent, for example, could add money to their kid’s account, just making things a little bit smoother on that end. Another big thing is now you can use contactless payment with a debit or credit card. I think we actually We talked about this in another roundup. About BART launching this towards the end of the summer, and now Clippers launched it, so that’s pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:30] Meaning that you can now tap to pay with a credit card or debit card on any transit system that uses Clipper, right? So that includes Muni, Caltrain, et cetera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:39] Exactly. Yeah. And the one that I’m most interested in as someone who takes two transit agencies to work is that now when you transfer from one agency to another, you can get a discount of up to $2.85 on your second ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:59] As long as your transfer happens within two hours of your first ride. So that’s gonna lead to quite a bit of savings for some people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:06] Wow, I did not know about that last one, but I also take two transit systems to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:11] Yeah, and there’s actually a really cool website called clipper2.hikingbytransit.com where you can actually put in your transit information and it’ll tell you how much you’re expected to save over a year of commuting, which they’re calculating at about 500 trips. And so I put mine in and I’m going to save over $1,000, which is pretty cool. Which is pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:35] Oh my gosh, what are you gonna do with that thousand dollar?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:38] I don’t know, I don’t know, maybe I’ll buy something, maybe i’ll go on a trip. Now I have that extra money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:45] Does everyone already have this? Has this automatically been implemented for everybody?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:49] Great question. So the whole Clipper 2.0 update is gonna take about eight to 12 weeks. It will happen automatically for everybody, but it will take some time. But you can manually update the app yourself by going to the Clipper website or going through however you have the app, if you have it on your phone, to get the update faster. That said, when… Clipper 2.0 first launched. There were some glitches and people were having issues updating. So there was a little frustration around that. It’s now been over a week. I was able to update mine pretty smoothly. So I think they’re working out some of the kinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:32] I mean Jessica, we’ve talked a lot on this show about like how much transit agencies around the Bay Area are really struggling financially right now so why why are they doing this and and why are they giving you and I big discounts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:19:46] Yeah, that’s a great question. And our colleague Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman did some really great reporting around this. So transit officials say that, you know, they’re hoping that offering these discounts will actually increase ridership. And if ridership goes up, then revenue goes up as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:20:03] The timing of this is interesting too, because next year we’re going to have the Super Bowl in the Bay Area in February, and then we will have World Cup games later in the year. 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"content": "\u003cp>A heads-up: your phone might be getting a loud \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/earthquake\">earthquake\u003c/a> test alert this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least, you will if you’re one of the over 4 million Californians who have the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977213/heres-where-to-download-californias-earthquake-early-warning-app\">MyShake earthquake warning app downloaded\u003c/a> on your cellphone. And this test alert will be part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.shakeout.org/\">Annual Great ShakeOut\u003c/a> quake preparedness drill that takes place across the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice run is particularly aptly timed for East Bay residents, who felt \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75250206/executive\">a 3.1 quake for real on Thursday\u003c/a>, located on the UC Berkeley campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drill also takes place on the day before the 36th anniversary of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780552/when-the-big-one-hit-unearthed-images-of-loma-prieta\"> the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake, \u003c/a>a 6.9 magnitude quake on the San Andreas fault in 1989 that killed 63 people, injured nearly 3,800 more and caused an estimated $6 billion in property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every second counts when an earthquake strikes. And that’s where the MyShake app, developed at \u003ca href=\"https://earthquakes.berkeley.edu/\">UC Berkeley’s Seismology Lab\u003c/a> and funded by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/\">California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)\u003c/a>, comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whenwilltheearthquaketestalert\">When will the earthquake test alert hit my phone on Thursday?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Since its launch in 2019, MyShake has sent early warning alerts to more than 5.5 million devices across California, Oregon and Washington for over 170 earthquakes. The app delivers crucial seconds of warning before shaking begins, allowing users to take life-saving actions — drop, cover and hold on — before the ground moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t predict earthquakes,” said Julien Marty, operations manager at the Berkeley Seismology Lab. “But we can detect them as soon as they start and alert the public within seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MyShake really excels at making that time as short as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are you ready for an earthquake?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The app is powered by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.shakealert.org/media-kit/\">U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) ShakeAlert system\u003c/a>, which uses a network of seismic sensors to detect earthquakes in real time. Once an event is detected, MyShake pushes alerts to users’ phones almost instantly, giving them anywhere from a few seconds to half a minute to react.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MyShake is the only app officially delivering earthquake early warnings on behalf of the state. But beyond alerts, it’s also intended as an educational tool.[aside postID=news_12057001 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-BERKELEY-EARTHQUAKE-KQED-1.jpg']Users can explore recent quakes on an interactive map, learn about earthquake safety and receive guidance on how to prepare their homes and families. “There’s lots of safety information in the app for educating people how to prepare their area for better protection in the event of an earthquake, and also on how to respond to an earthquake properly,” said Suresh Raman, who manages the MyShake team at the Berkeley Seismology Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Raman and Marty emphasized that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">preparation goes beyond drills\u003c/a>. Secure heavy furniture, build an emergency kit and know what to do when the next quake hits. “It has been well-documented that in the case of the Loma Prieta event or the Northridge event, more than 50% of the injuries were caused by things falling on people or people falling on things,” Marty said. “If everyone takes a few simple steps to prepare, we can really reduce injuries and save lives.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">Read more from KQED about how to prep your home for an earthquake.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about this latest test alert that’s happening on Thursday — and more ways to get these earthquake warnings for real.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whenwilltheearthquaketestalert\">\u003c/a>When will the earthquake test alert happen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977213/heres-where-to-download-californias-earthquake-early-warning-app\">MyShake app\u003c/a> will send the test alert at 10:16 a.m. Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phone alert will only be received by people with the MyShake app who live in California, Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What will the alert look and sound like?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://myshake.berkeley.edu/FAQ_en.html#shakeout2\">MyShake test alert\u003c/a> will say “Drill: Drop! Cover! Hold On!” You’ll also get an audio alert that will signify that this is an earthquake drill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I want this alert — how can I make sure I get it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have an iPhone, you can \u003ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myshake/id1467058529\">download the MyShake app from the Apple App Store\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have an Android phone, you can\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.bsl.myshake&pli=1\"> download MyShake from the Google Play store\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will this system be used when a real earthquake is detected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When an earthquake occurs, multiple earthquake stations will detect the shaking of the ground. Algorithms then estimate the earthquake’s location and expected magnitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myshake.berkeley.edu/faq.html#troubleshooting\">If the earthquake is estimated to be magnitude 4.5 or greater,\u003c/a> MyShake will send an alert to phones in the affected area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1p0pFFbH8M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just this year, there have been 15 such events greater than magnitude 4.5,” Raman said. December 2024 saw the year’s largest magnitude: a \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000nw7b/executive\">7.0 earthquake in Cape Mendocino.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important for the public to understand that earthquakes do happen throughout the state, and whatever they can do to prepare would be beneficial at some point,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I have the app, but what if I don’t get the test alert?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have the MyShake app and you still don’t get the alert on your phone on Thursday, don’t worry: It might be due to a few reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your alerts and notifications might be disabled for the MyShake app, or MyShake may not have permission to run in your phone’s background. Since the alert will be sent to phones in California, Oregon and Washington, the app will rely on your location data in order to send you the test alert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that if you have your location services turned off, you might not be able to receive the alert. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994754/myshake-info@berkeley.edu\">contact MyShake suppor\u003c/a>t if you think you’ve encountered a problem with the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If you did install MyShake in the past on your iPhone, but you still don’t receive the alert, check that you don’t have the “Offload Unused Apps” turned on. This feature could have automatically uninstalled MyShake to save storage space if you haven’t used it in a while.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If my phone is off or on airplane mode, will I receive the alert?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just like a normal alert, MyShake is unable to send test alerts to phones that are off or in airplane mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people who have the MyShake app and prefer not to receive the alerts on Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://myshake.berkeley.edu/faq.html#shakeout\">MyShake advises people to turn off notifications on their phones\u003c/a> from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myshake.berkeley.edu/FAQ_en.html#science\">Find more frequently asked questions about MyShake here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are other ways than MyShake to get an alert if a real earthquake hits?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System (EEW) from USGS and the Federal Emergency Management Agency sends \u003ca href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-do-i-sign-shakealertr-earthquake-early-warning-system\">earthquake alerts to people’s phones in multiple ways.\u003c/a>[aside postID=news_12027026 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-1020x765.jpg']The most widespread way is through Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), which sends loud alerts to all cellphones. If an earthquake is expected to be magnitude 5 or greater, \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.ca.gov/wireless-emergency-alerts/#:~:text=WEA%20alerts%20will%20be%20sent,5.0%20with%20shaking%20intensity%204.\">USGS and FEMA will send a WEA to all capable devices.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ShakeAlert also powers other systems like MyShake alerts and \u003ca href=\"https://www.readysandiego.org/SDEmergencyApp/\">the ShakeReadySD app for San Diego residents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968352/android-phones-will-now-automatically-receive-california-earthquake-warnings\">Android phones have also been capable of receiving earthquake early warning alerts\u003c/a> through Google’s Android operating system — though users should still check their settings to make sure that earthquake alerts are enabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MyShake differs from other alert delivery tools in that it collects user experience reports for earthquakes greater than magnitude 3.5 and uses motion data captured by phones for research purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope for this test alert is that when people receive it, they drop, cover and hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Users can explore recent quakes on an interactive map, learn about earthquake safety and receive guidance on how to prepare their homes and families. “There’s lots of safety information in the app for educating people how to prepare their area for better protection in the event of an earthquake, and also on how to respond to an earthquake properly,” said Suresh Raman, who manages the MyShake team at the Berkeley Seismology Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Raman and Marty emphasized that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">preparation goes beyond drills\u003c/a>. Secure heavy furniture, build an emergency kit and know what to do when the next quake hits. “It has been well-documented that in the case of the Loma Prieta event or the Northridge event, more than 50% of the injuries were caused by things falling on people or people falling on things,” Marty said. “If everyone takes a few simple steps to prepare, we can really reduce injuries and save lives.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">Read more from KQED about how to prep your home for an earthquake.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about this latest test alert that’s happening on Thursday — and more ways to get these earthquake warnings for real.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whenwilltheearthquaketestalert\">\u003c/a>When will the earthquake test alert happen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977213/heres-where-to-download-californias-earthquake-early-warning-app\">MyShake app\u003c/a> will send the test alert at 10:16 a.m. Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phone alert will only be received by people with the MyShake app who live in California, Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What will the alert look and sound like?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://myshake.berkeley.edu/FAQ_en.html#shakeout2\">MyShake test alert\u003c/a> will say “Drill: Drop! 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December 2024 saw the year’s largest magnitude: a \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000nw7b/executive\">7.0 earthquake in Cape Mendocino.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important for the public to understand that earthquakes do happen throughout the state, and whatever they can do to prepare would be beneficial at some point,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I have the app, but what if I don’t get the test alert?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have the MyShake app and you still don’t get the alert on your phone on Thursday, don’t worry: It might be due to a few reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your alerts and notifications might be disabled for the MyShake app, or MyShake may not have permission to run in your phone’s background. 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"content": "\u003cp>A series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/earthquakes\">earthquakes \u003c/a>rattled the East Bay on Thursday, adding a jolt of quake anxiety to what was already a rain-soaked day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of the bunch, a 3.7 magnitude earthquake, struck shortly before 2 p.m. just east of Hayward, sending a short but strong shockwave through much of the Bay Area. It followed two other small quakes — likely foreshocks — in the hours before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shaking could be felt as far north as Vallejo and south throughout San José, according to \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75132987/dyfi/intensity\">U.S. Geological Survey data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quakes’ epicenters surrounded the Hayward fault, which spans from San Pablo Bay in the north to Fremont in the south. It runs under the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and Hayward before connecting to the longer Calaveras fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward’s slip-strike fault hasn’t been hit with a strong earthquake since the 1860s, according to USGS, but do these smaller shakes mean the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">Big One\u003c/a> is happening soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg\" alt=\"A panoramic view of the North Bay shoreline near Rodeo. In the foreground are oil refinery terminals. Behind them are houses and hills.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillips 66’s refinery in Rodeo, along the San Pablo Bay. The Feb. 13 quakes’ epicenters surrounded the Hayward fault, which spans from San Pablo Bay in the north to Fremont in the south. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Peggy Hellweg with UC Berkeley’s Seismology Lab, who spoke to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1936949/do-little-quakes-mean-the-big-one-is-close-at-hand\">KQED in 2019\u003c/a>, it’s not so easy to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at the time that small quakes happen along the Hayward fault all the time, as they did in January of that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past 20 to 30 years, those worrisome, but fairly harmless, shakes had never led to a “big one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer the fault goes without a significant quake, though, the more pressure it builds up, Hellweg said. And the widespread myth that small earthquakes release some of this tension isn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1936949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/05-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average interval between major seismic events on the Hayward fault is about 140 years, plus or minus 50. \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3020/fs20163020.pdf\">USGS researchers\u003c/a> say there’s about a 33% chance a magnitude 7 quake could take place on the fault in the next three decades, and there’s a slightly lower but still significant chance that two other faults that run through the Bay Area, the Paicines and San Andreas, could see some action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One concern on the East Bay fault specifically is that it is made of a combination of locked and creeping lines. While the creeping ones move, normally causing some slight shaking, locked faults don’t. Instead, shaking on those could be foreshocks of a larger quake to come, UC Berkeley seismologist Roland Burgmann previously told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever a quake — big or small — occurs, it’s a good time to check on earthquake kits and make sure to have the MyShake app downloaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app, created by Berkeley’s Seismology Lab, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999982/recent-california-earthquakes-had-a-few-seconds-warning-in-the-big-one-that-could-save-lives\">gave Californians a few seconds’ notice\u003c/a> before significant earthquakes last year and could make a real difference when a big one hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farther from the epicenter, the longer the warning time you can usually get from the app, which sends out a notification instructing people to do what they’ve been taught since kindergarten but could forget in a panic: duck, cover and hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen that for many earthquakes, particularly on the West Coast, in California, the people that are injured are injured by things falling on them because they’re trying to get to safety,” said Angie Lux, a project scientist for the Berkeley Seismology Lab’s earthquake early warning program. “It’s really hard to move during an earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After Thursday’s blaring tsunami alert sent out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">a wave of confusion across Northern California\u003c/a>, authorities are using it as a lesson in preparing for future disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one expert in Humboldt said the day reveals just how much the country has to learn about forecasting tsunamis, calling it “deja vu all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lori Dengler, an emeritus professor of geology at Cal Poly Humboldt, not much has changed about the U.S.’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016934/qa-imperfect-science-behind-tsunami-warnings\">tsunami warning system\u003c/a> since a similar near-coast earthquake hit in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire West Coast from San Diego up to the Canadian border was put into a tsunami warning and a tsunami did not materialize,” she said. “[The U.S.] is still in the relative infancy or maybe toddlerhood of the tsunami warning world in terms of having the kinds of instrumentation offshore, having the kinds of models to forecast [their] impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the 1990s that many people realized that tsunamis don’t only come to the West Coast from far away, she said. They can actually originate as close as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that spans a long stretch about 100 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016883\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFFD arrives on the scene to evacuate people for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. officially began tsunami forecasting in 1949 and has opened two Tsunami Warning Centers in Alaska and Hawaii since. The centers’ notifications have three levels of ascending seriousness: watch, advisory, and what was issued Thursday: warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dengler said there are a lot of shades of grey under that “warning” umbrella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Japan, they have three levels of tsunami warnings,” she told KQED. “They have a small tsunami, a medium tsunami and a big tsunami. In the U.S., we just have one level. We just have ‘warning.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earthquake that meets a prespecified set of standards based on magnitude, location and depth triggers a warning, no matter how close, or far, from the cut-off it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map of at-risk zones and guidance for a local response, when there’s a warning issued, is based on a model researchers designed for a worst-case earthquake event on that underwater Cascadia fault — “the big one” — Dengler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=3e222feda41b4d1097acecb377cb1b5a\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The tsunami hazard area (shaded orange) represents the “maximum considered tsunami runup from several extreme, infrequent, and realistic tsunami sources,” according to the California Department of Conservation, which provided the geographic data for this map.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a ‘little’ tsunami evacuation zone,” Dengler said. “We can’t tell people, ‘This is only a tsunami ‘C,’ not a tsunami ‘B’ or ‘A,’ and so these are the only areas that are at risk because we don’t have the basic science or the instrumentation to be able to do that level of detail yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Thursday’s tsunami warning — which many people have been tempted to deem an overreaction — was so far-reaching, and confusing for even city governments trying to decide how to keep their populations safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley probably took the warning most seriously, implementing an evacuation order for West Berkeley’s evacuation zone within about a half hour. Fourth Street businesses closed\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Interstate 80’s onramp at University Avenue shut down and at least one \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-issued-for-california-berkeley\">day care asked parents to pick up their kids\u003c/a> before the warning was called off less than an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials there say the decision was based on state guidance after the city received the blanket “warning” Dengler referenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message indicated that a ‘Warning-level’ tsunami of at least 3 feet would hit the shores of San Francisco by 12:10pm, implying that Berkeley would likely be hit shortly thereafter,” spokesperson Matthai Chakko wrote via email. “Pre-existing state guidance indicated that such a tsunami could reach as far east as portions of 7th Street” and “prompted the City to issue an evacuation order for the affected area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for a tsunami at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other disruptions rippled throughout the bay: BART temporarily shut down service in its Transbay Tube, Salesforce Tower began an evacuation, and San Francisco warned coastal residents to move at least a block inland and avoid evacuation zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the immediate threat had passed, San Francisco fire rescue captain Justin Schorr warned residents not to write off the day as a false alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how prepared is the Bay Area, and wider West Coast?[aside postID=news_12016934 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg']Delger said that refining the national Tsunami Warning System would require investment in offshore instruments and more personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way right now to pull the San Francisco Bay’s communities — Alameda, the Marin County part that’s on the bay — there’s no way to pull those communities out of the warning,” she told KQED. “The system is not set up now to do localized threats within Puget Sound, within San Francisco Bay, or really parsing the details of any of the coasts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local cities also have kinks to work out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after its evacuation was called off, Berkeley sent out a survey requesting feedback about how it handled the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Alameda, resident David Howard said he didn’t receive any of the city’s text messages until after the warning had passed, though it says it sent out multiple through its alert system. Traffic was also backed up at Posey Tube, the westernmost exit off the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event of a tsunami that does materialize, Howard worries the city isn’t prepared to safely evacuate everyone who could be in a risk zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for signs of a tsunami from an overlook point at Brickyard Cove in Berkeley, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s about how do we evacuate people off the island? I don’t have faith in my government that we have a good plan,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comment from the city of Alameda was not available by the time this story was published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there was a noticeable lack of blaring emergency sirens, which residents got used to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696153/7-things-to-know-about-san-franciscos-tuesday-noon-siren\">hearing at lunchtime on Tuesdays\u003c/a> before they were taken out of commission in 2019 for repairs. The system was expected to return to service after two years, but it remains offline.[aside postID=news_12017000 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/EarthquakeSukeyLewis-1020x765.jpg']Mary Ellen Carroll, the executive director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, said that after initial assessments, the total cost to refurbish the system ballooned from about $2 million to over $20 million, and currently, the city has no money budgeted for these repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said that the most effective channels of communication have evolved since the system was built in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Wireless Emergency Alert [WEA] yesterday is the way that we do alerting in this country for major events,” she told KQED. “The main thing is that it gave you information, whereas a siren does not. A siren just goes off, and then you have to figure out why is the siren going off. A WEA, a text alert, a phone call — those are ways that are much more effective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dengler warned, though, that in the event of a really “big one,” these methods of communication might not be ironclad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have a magnitude 9 earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, people aren’t going to get an alert because our infrastructure is likely to be damaged,” she said. “They have to know on their own what to do and where to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Carroll said repairing the existing Outdoor Public Warning System isn’t a top priority. The DEM has been looking into other ways to provide the same value — reaching people without phones when cell service or power is out — with newer technology that sends more targeted messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This upgrade, and many others being discussed to prepare the Bay Area for “the big one” will require more investment than seems to be coming from the local or federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want a better tsunami warning system, we have to put resources into allowing our warning system to give us more quality, localized information,” Dengler said. “If we had done that, we probably would have seen a very different story in terms of the tsunami warning area for this particular event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They can actually originate as close as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that spans a long stretch about 100 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016883\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFFD arrives on the scene to evacuate people for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. officially began tsunami forecasting in 1949 and has opened two Tsunami Warning Centers in Alaska and Hawaii since. The centers’ notifications have three levels of ascending seriousness: watch, advisory, and what was issued Thursday: warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dengler said there are a lot of shades of grey under that “warning” umbrella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Japan, they have three levels of tsunami warnings,” she told KQED. “They have a small tsunami, a medium tsunami and a big tsunami. In the U.S., we just have one level. We just have ‘warning.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earthquake that meets a prespecified set of standards based on magnitude, location and depth triggers a warning, no matter how close, or far, from the cut-off it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map of at-risk zones and guidance for a local response, when there’s a warning issued, is based on a model researchers designed for a worst-case earthquake event on that underwater Cascadia fault — “the big one” — Dengler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=3e222feda41b4d1097acecb377cb1b5a\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The tsunami hazard area (shaded orange) represents the “maximum considered tsunami runup from several extreme, infrequent, and realistic tsunami sources,” according to the California Department of Conservation, which provided the geographic data for this map.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a ‘little’ tsunami evacuation zone,” Dengler said. “We can’t tell people, ‘This is only a tsunami ‘C,’ not a tsunami ‘B’ or ‘A,’ and so these are the only areas that are at risk because we don’t have the basic science or the instrumentation to be able to do that level of detail yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Thursday’s tsunami warning — which many people have been tempted to deem an overreaction — was so far-reaching, and confusing for even city governments trying to decide how to keep their populations safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley probably took the warning most seriously, implementing an evacuation order for West Berkeley’s evacuation zone within about a half hour. Fourth Street businesses closed\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Interstate 80’s onramp at University Avenue shut down and at least one \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-issued-for-california-berkeley\">day care asked parents to pick up their kids\u003c/a> before the warning was called off less than an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials there say the decision was based on state guidance after the city received the blanket “warning” Dengler referenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message indicated that a ‘Warning-level’ tsunami of at least 3 feet would hit the shores of San Francisco by 12:10pm, implying that Berkeley would likely be hit shortly thereafter,” spokesperson Matthai Chakko wrote via email. “Pre-existing state guidance indicated that such a tsunami could reach as far east as portions of 7th Street” and “prompted the City to issue an evacuation order for the affected area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for a tsunami at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other disruptions rippled throughout the bay: BART temporarily shut down service in its Transbay Tube, Salesforce Tower began an evacuation, and San Francisco warned coastal residents to move at least a block inland and avoid evacuation zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the immediate threat had passed, San Francisco fire rescue captain Justin Schorr warned residents not to write off the day as a false alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how prepared is the Bay Area, and wider West Coast?\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Delger said that refining the national Tsunami Warning System would require investment in offshore instruments and more personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way right now to pull the San Francisco Bay’s communities — Alameda, the Marin County part that’s on the bay — there’s no way to pull those communities out of the warning,” she told KQED. “The system is not set up now to do localized threats within Puget Sound, within San Francisco Bay, or really parsing the details of any of the coasts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local cities also have kinks to work out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after its evacuation was called off, Berkeley sent out a survey requesting feedback about how it handled the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Alameda, resident David Howard said he didn’t receive any of the city’s text messages until after the warning had passed, though it says it sent out multiple through its alert system. Traffic was also backed up at Posey Tube, the westernmost exit off the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event of a tsunami that does materialize, Howard worries the city isn’t prepared to safely evacuate everyone who could be in a risk zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for signs of a tsunami from an overlook point at Brickyard Cove in Berkeley, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s about how do we evacuate people off the island? I don’t have faith in my government that we have a good plan,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comment from the city of Alameda was not available by the time this story was published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there was a noticeable lack of blaring emergency sirens, which residents got used to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696153/7-things-to-know-about-san-franciscos-tuesday-noon-siren\">hearing at lunchtime on Tuesdays\u003c/a> before they were taken out of commission in 2019 for repairs. The system was expected to return to service after two years, but it remains offline.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Schools in Oakland were sheltering in place, and one campus in West Oakland was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART halted service in the Transbay Tube for about 45 minutes, and even Salesforce Tower and other downtown San Francisco buildings were in the process of being cleared out, a representative for Pier 39 said before the tsunami warning was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SFFD firefighter warns surfers in the water to evacuate for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the initial shock — and tsunami warning — had passed, San Francisco officials urged residents to use the morning’s events as an opportunity to prepare for aftershocks and future earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks don’t clarify today as a false alarm,” said Justin Schorr, a rescue captain with the San Francisco Fire Department. “The alert issued today was the highest level of tsunami warning that we have. If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the warning, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LondonBreed/status/1864758048012554283\">urged residents\u003c/a> to move at least a block inland off the coast, and the San Francisco Zoo evacuated its guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, dozens of people \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dannydiekroeger/status/1864751979819602406\">gathered at Fort Mason\u003c/a> to get an up-close look at the anticipated waves from 50 feet above sea level. None came, but Schorr said that doesn’t mean the city is totally in the clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA-.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12017008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1020x782.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1020x782.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--800x614.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1536x1178.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA-.png 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>“Our biggest concern right now is aftershocks, and there could be a significant aftershock that triggers another tsunami warning,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s tsunami evacuation zones are mapped out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf72.org/hazard/tsunamis\">sf72.org\u003c/a>, Schorr noted, adding that people should make a plan for where they’ll go if they find themselves within one in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest areas where evacuations are necessary during tsunami warnings are along Ocean Beach in the Sunset, throughout the Marina as far in as Chestnut Street in some places, and portions of North Beach and the Financial District. But in general, the city — and much of the Bay Area at large — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10628782/what-would-really-happen-if-a-tsunami-hit-san-francisco\">isn’t at a huge risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along Fourth Street in Berkeley, an outdoor shopping strip not far from the San Francisco Bay, stores closed temporarily, but business was mostly back to normal shortly after city officials lifted the evacuation order. Several shoppers were unconcerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Pablo resident Edna Garcia was shopping in REI when she was told she needed to leave. “It was kind of — not scary, but unusual, right?” she said. “I’m one of those people who are just, ‘Don’t freak out.’ If it’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen.”[aside postID=news_10628782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sanandreasmovie.jpg']Richmond resident Lee Glickstein was waiting at the Genius Bar in the Apple Store when the evacuation order came. He left the store, but remained in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had to wait around,” he said. “No big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earthquake’s epicenter was about 40 miles from the community of Petrolia, at a depth of 0.37 miles. It occurred where three tectonic plates meet — the Pacific, North American and Juan de Fuca plates. That’s “historically the most seismically active part of California,” seismologist Lucy Jones said in a \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/drlucyjones.bsky.social/post/3lclgtdia222w\">social media post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, another significant earthquake — initially reported as a magnitude 5.8 but later revised down to 4.1 — was reported at 10:47 a.m., centered near the border of Sonoma and Lake counties. It struck several miles off the San Andreas Fault, where the Pacific and North American plates converge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the tsunami warning fizzled out without any significant surge in the Bay Area, residents and businesses on the North Coast reported some minor damage from the 7.0 earthquake. Authorities in Humboldt County did not immediately have information on damage to structures or roads, but Caroline Titus, who lives in the small city of Ferndale, said she almost immediately recognized the quake as a big one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ran outside, saw my little Honda Fit jumping up and down in the driveway, and then my instincts kicked in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/caroline95536/status/1864749359742804200\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Titus lives just off of Ferndale’s commercial district and walked through many of its stores shortly after the quake hit. There didn’t appear to be any buildings with window or structure damage, she said, but cans were rolling on the floor of the Main Street grocery store, and glasses had shattered behind the bar at a local pub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street at the local cemetery, some headstones had been knocked out of place or repositioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just stuff off shelves, in our house it’s just a mess, lots of glass broken,” Titus said. “We’re pretty good about making sure that we don’t have heavy stuff up high, but it still all comes down and cupboards open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fortuna, about 50 miles from the epicenter of the quake, Ray’s Food Place had minimal damage that shut down the grocery store for a few hours. Manager Brandon Giordano estimated that about $30,000 worth of merchandise was being swept up by other shop employees, including shattered bottles of salad dressing, cans of tomato sauce and jars of pickles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11935962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/AP22354568302608-e1671554137455.jpg\" alt=\"Buckled road after an earthquake\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1,320-foot-long concrete arch bridge that spans the Eel River near Fortuna in Humboldt County was damaged and closed on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, following an early morning 6.4 magnitude earthquake that rattled the region. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Caltrans District 1)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the impact wasn’t nearly as bad as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935961/magnitude-6-4-earthquake-shakes-humboldt-county-many-without-power\">magnitude 6.4 earthquake\u003c/a> that rocked the town in December 2022 and its aftershock on New Year’s Day in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to have to shut down other than temporarily to clean up some mess,” he told KQED. “We’re hoping to be open for the public in about half an hour. Overall, not nearly as bad, but definitely a scare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Goade, a city building official doing inspections in Fortuna after the shaking subsided, said most buildings he had been to seemed to sustain less damage than in recent quakes. There was some damage to personal items and sheetrock, but he hadn’t seen anything dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got real lucky,” he said. “It really moved around here, but most everything where we normally see damage happening to here didn’t happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 miles south in Rio Dell, City Manager Kyle Knopp said there was similarly little damage, though one middle school campus had a gas leak that sent students home. The leak at Monument Middle School is now closed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power also went out throughout much of the town, and a large crack broke down the road that connects Rio Dell to Fortuna and Ferndale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working on that, but the road is still passable at this time and there’s no rain in the forecast,” Knopp told KQED. If rain does get into the crack, it could cause further problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He reiterated Goade’s thankfulness that the damage seemed minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“December is becoming earthquake season here, unfortunately,” Knopp said. “Hopefully with the mathematical odds of that, it’ll give December a break for the next three or four decades, but we’ll find out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kevinstark\">Kevin Stark\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ebaldassari\">Erin Baldassari\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">Dan Brekke\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gzada\">Gilare Zada\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">Sukey Lewis\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that hour, though, the seemingly dire messages led to a mix of confusion and indifference throughout the Bay Area as people, and their local leaders, tried to figure out what to make of a widespread tsunami warning. Emergency alerts blared on cellphones across Northern California, and officials rushed to order evacuations for coastal areas in the tsunami risk zone, including \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/11314267/?sub_id=0\">West Berkeley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ilike_mike/status/1864749582057640250\">parts of Del Norte County\u003c/a>. Schools in Oakland were sheltering in place, and one campus in West Oakland was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART halted service in the Transbay Tube for about 45 minutes, and even Salesforce Tower and other downtown San Francisco buildings were in the process of being cleared out, a representative for Pier 39 said before the tsunami warning was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-007-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SFFD firefighter warns surfers in the water to evacuate for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the initial shock — and tsunami warning — had passed, San Francisco officials urged residents to use the morning’s events as an opportunity to prepare for aftershocks and future earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks don’t clarify today as a false alarm,” said Justin Schorr, a rescue captain with the San Francisco Fire Department. “The alert issued today was the highest level of tsunami warning that we have. If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the warning, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LondonBreed/status/1864758048012554283\">urged residents\u003c/a> to move at least a block inland off the coast, and the San Francisco Zoo evacuated its guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, dozens of people \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dannydiekroeger/status/1864751979819602406\">gathered at Fort Mason\u003c/a> to get an up-close look at the anticipated waves from 50 feet above sea level. None came, but Schorr said that doesn’t mean the city is totally in the clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA-.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12017008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1020x782.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1020x782.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--800x614.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA--1536x1178.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/pbgTA-.png 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>“Our biggest concern right now is aftershocks, and there could be a significant aftershock that triggers another tsunami warning,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s tsunami evacuation zones are mapped out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf72.org/hazard/tsunamis\">sf72.org\u003c/a>, Schorr noted, adding that people should make a plan for where they’ll go if they find themselves within one in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest areas where evacuations are necessary during tsunami warnings are along Ocean Beach in the Sunset, throughout the Marina as far in as Chestnut Street in some places, and portions of North Beach and the Financial District. But in general, the city — and much of the Bay Area at large — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10628782/what-would-really-happen-if-a-tsunami-hit-san-francisco\">isn’t at a huge risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along Fourth Street in Berkeley, an outdoor shopping strip not far from the San Francisco Bay, stores closed temporarily, but business was mostly back to normal shortly after city officials lifted the evacuation order. Several shoppers were unconcerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Pablo resident Edna Garcia was shopping in REI when she was told she needed to leave. “It was kind of — not scary, but unusual, right?” she said. “I’m one of those people who are just, ‘Don’t freak out.’ If it’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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How does \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999721/as-republicans-attack-harris-on-immigration-heres-what-her-california-record-reveals\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harris’ record in California\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shape her views on immigration and the border?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/4-4-magnitude-quake-hits-near-highland-park\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">4.4 magnitude earthquake\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> struck 2.5 miles southeast of Highland Park in Los Angeles County on Monday afternoon. In terms of intensity, the shaking was strong enough to knock items off shelves, but didn’t cause any widespread damage. It did startle quite a few people throughout the region. And thousands received early notice of the quake through the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://myshake.berkeley.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MyShake app\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>State lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article290892494.html\">approved a package of bills\u003c/a> aimed at combating retail theft. The bills now await Governor Newsom’s signature.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999721/as-republicans-attack-harris-on-immigration-heres-what-her-california-record-reveals\">\u003cb>As Republicans Attack Harris on Immigration, Here’s What Her California Record Reveals\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the Biden administration facing \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/610322/immigration-leads-reasons-biden-detractors-disapprove.aspx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">low approval ratings on immigration\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Republicans blaming Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for what they call a “border \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/ca8d0dd5-2f4b-417b-8ed2-9d42b89f5946\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">invasion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” Harris is pushing back, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamD7RueuvA\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spotlighting\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in campaign ads and speeches what she says is her history of tough border enforcement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But a look at Harris’ record as a public official in California — the state with the largest number and share of immigrants — finds a more nuanced picture. Longtime political observers say her experience as the daughter of immigrants has intertwined with her career as a prosecutor to form a pattern: pro-immigration but tough in enforcing the law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/4-4-magnitude-quake-hits-near-highland-park\">\u003cb>4.4. 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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 4.4. magnitude quake struck around 12:20 p.m.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The quake was centered right beneath a heavily populated part of Los Angeles, meaning more people felt it than if the same size quake hit in a remote location. Just a few hours after the quake hit, more than 20,000 people had submitted “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40699207/dyfi/intensity\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did You Feel It\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” reports to the U.S. Geological Survey. 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