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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ive months after dozens of Vallejo residents sought medical treatment after being overpowered by an unbearable odor that spread over their community, a collection of federal, state and local agencies have failed to follow up on the cause or have declined to release results of their investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fumes prompted about 800 phone calls to authorities, who imposed a shelter-in-place order covering much of the city of 118,000. The onset of the sickening odor appears to have coincided with a petroleum spill at the Phillips 66 refinery the same evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The noxious smell dissipated within a few hours. By then, local, regional, state and federal agencies had been alerted and said they were trying to pinpoint the source and composition of the fumes -- both of which remain unconfirmed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZB8Pth0HV2bnjkBQ2TZhLuNCenbEg1ig\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Vallejo, which told residents several times that its Fire Department was investigating the odor, never actually launched a probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, whose job it is to regulate sources of air pollution, said it investigated the odor. But the agency never compiled a report on its source, and its staff says they never even made written notes about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard announced in October that it had determined that crude oil detected in the waters of San Pablo Bay came from either a marine terminal at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo or a tanker that was unloading there. The agency has yet to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife Office of Spill Prevention and Response says it has completed an investigation but is refusing to release its results. It also says it did not focus on finding the cause of the odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309997283\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overpowering Odor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overpowering odor was first reported at 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 20, according to Joanna Altman, an assistant to Vallejo's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few hours residents complained to city officials that the odor, whatever its source, was causing headaches, sore throats, burning eyes, chest pain and nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Carle, who lives near the Carquinez Strait, was one of the residents sickened by the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden the air that was coming through windows was just about toxic,” Carle said. “I could feel that I was starting to get very congested in my lungs, which is not normal, and my head just started pounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew of the Baylink ferry Intintoli was sailing through waters near Vallejo and the Rodeo refinery when the crew reported \"a very pungent odor ... like bunker fuel.\" The report, recorded at 8 p.m. by the federal National Response Center, described the odor as \"unbearable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing an \"unknown odor,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642658872569838\" target=\"_blank\">Vallejo issued a shelter-in-place order\u003c/a> in the southern part of town, advising residents to stay indoors, turn off air-conditioning units and close windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642665665902492\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the order\u003c/a>, advising all residents to stay indoors \"until the source is determined.\" The city said that PG&E and public safety officials were working to determine the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two hours after the odor was first reported, city officials were told that Phillips 66 had shut down some of its operations but were not told why, Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 9:43 p.m., the city produced a video (below) in which Altman said emergency dispatchers had received 800 calls about the problem and that some residents were going to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/JmUFScfqC_4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before midnight, the city sent out another message: \"Given the direction of the winds and investigation, it is likely that the source is not from Vallejo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following morning the shelter-in-place order was lifted and natural gas was eliminated as the source by hazardous materials crews, the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Fire Department will continue to investigate the root cause,\" said a reverse 911 call to residents, as well as two city of Vallejo press releases that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it appears the Fire Department investigation never materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have very limited authority to investigate outside the boundaries of Vallejo and we have really very little ability to investigate this kind of thing,\" Fire Chief Jack McArthur said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Phillips 66 reopened its marine terminal and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/28/phillips-66-refinery-in-rodeo-reopens-marine-terminal-as-oil-spill-investigation-continues/\" target=\"_blank\">the oil tanker tied to the spill\u003c/a> was allowed to leave San Pablo Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Fails to Buy Promised Air-Monitoring Gear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months after the apparent spill and resulting fumes, Chief McArthur, Mayor Bob Sampayan and City Manager Daniel Keen all told KQED that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/02/oil-spill-sickening-odor-prompt-vallejo-to-consider-buying-new-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">they wanted new air monitors\u003c/a> because the ones the city does have did not detect anything the night of the odor incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sampayan went further. He \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/19/new-vallejo-mayor-wants-oil-industry-to-pay-for-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">called on the oil industry to pay for new monitors\u003c/a> in Vallejo and communities near the four major oil refineries in Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months after the mysterious odor, the city has yet to buy new devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have identified the equipment we think will be most useful, but have not yet purchased it,\" Keen said in a recent email. \"This will be part of budget discussions we'll be having with the City Council shortly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still carrying this as a priority project,\" Sampayan said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, it was just recently that -- for the first time since the odor -- Vallejo city officials met with Bay Area Air Quality Management District staff to discuss the September mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air Regulators: No Documentation on Vallejo Incident \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says it completed its investigation into the noxious fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Air District reached the same conclusions as the lead agency (U.S. Coast Guard),\" district spokesman Ralph Borrmann said in a recent email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies were unable to determine the exact cause of the spill. In addition there was no conclusive determination for the cause of the odor in Vallejo,\" Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED requested a copy of the air district's report about the odor. But no report was ever written, Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We only write a report when a violation of a district regulation is documented,\" Borrmann said. \"In this case there were no violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED then requested copies of all documents and email correspondence related to the air district's work on the odor and spill. But no such materials exist, district officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have spoken to our enforcement staff, and there are no documents or emails,\" wrote Rochelle Reed, an employee at the air district's public records office, in an email. \"The air district had a minor role, and staff consulted by phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coast Guard Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district is not the only agency that has failed to produce evidence of its inquiry into the Phillips 66 oil spill that apparently led to the Vallejo incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Coast Guard seeking documentation of its spill investigation beyond the summary it offered in an October press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release said the agency's inquiry determined both Phillips 66 and Teekay Shipping, the owner of the oil tanker Yamuna Spirit, were responsible for the spill. The Coast Guard said the substance found in San Pablo Bay matched the light Arabian crude the tanker was transferring to the refinery, though it was unable to determine how much oil was released into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/refinery-shipping-firm-dispute-finding-theyre-responsible-for-oil-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">dispute\u003c/a> the Coast Guard findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard says its response and investigation cost the agency around $36,000. The National Pollution Funds Center is sending a bill for that amount to Teekay and Phillips 66 to reimburse the Coast Guard, according to Coast Guard spokeswoman Megan Mervar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Probe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other agency that looked into the episode, California's Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR), spent around $40,000 on responding to the Rodeo oil spill, according to an agency incident billing obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OSPR has completed its investigation, agency spokesman Aubrey Henry said in an email in late January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the inquiry did not determine how the oil spilled, or how much wound up in the water or what led to the odor, Henry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our investigators responded to a report of a sheen in the water and focused mainly on looking into the cause and quantity of any oil released into state waters,\" Henry said. \"The local air quality management district, the California Air Resources Board or the local Fire Department may be able to provide information about any air quality concerns or odors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry says OSPR plans to hand over its report on the spill to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stacey Grassini, an attorney in the DA's environmental enforcement unit, said that the state has yet to share its findings.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, whose job it is to regulate sources of air pollution, said it investigated the odor. But the agency never compiled a report on its source, and its staff says they never even made written notes about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard announced in October that it had determined that crude oil detected in the waters of San Pablo Bay came from either a marine terminal at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo or a tanker that was unloading there. The agency has yet to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife Office of Spill Prevention and Response says it has completed an investigation but is refusing to release its results. It also says it did not focus on finding the cause of the odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309997283&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309997283'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overpowering Odor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overpowering odor was first reported at 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 20, according to Joanna Altman, an assistant to Vallejo's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few hours residents complained to city officials that the odor, whatever its source, was causing headaches, sore throats, burning eyes, chest pain and nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Carle, who lives near the Carquinez Strait, was one of the residents sickened by the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden the air that was coming through windows was just about toxic,” Carle said. “I could feel that I was starting to get very congested in my lungs, which is not normal, and my head just started pounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew of the Baylink ferry Intintoli was sailing through waters near Vallejo and the Rodeo refinery when the crew reported \"a very pungent odor ... like bunker fuel.\" The report, recorded at 8 p.m. by the federal National Response Center, described the odor as \"unbearable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing an \"unknown odor,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642658872569838\" target=\"_blank\">Vallejo issued a shelter-in-place order\u003c/a> in the southern part of town, advising residents to stay indoors, turn off air-conditioning units and close windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642665665902492\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the order\u003c/a>, advising all residents to stay indoors \"until the source is determined.\" The city said that PG&E and public safety officials were working to determine the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two hours after the odor was first reported, city officials were told that Phillips 66 had shut down some of its operations but were not told why, Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 9:43 p.m., the city produced a video (below) in which Altman said emergency dispatchers had received 800 calls about the problem and that some residents were going to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/JmUFScfqC_4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before midnight, the city sent out another message: \"Given the direction of the winds and investigation, it is likely that the source is not from Vallejo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following morning the shelter-in-place order was lifted and natural gas was eliminated as the source by hazardous materials crews, the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Fire Department will continue to investigate the root cause,\" said a reverse 911 call to residents, as well as two city of Vallejo press releases that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it appears the Fire Department investigation never materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have very limited authority to investigate outside the boundaries of Vallejo and we have really very little ability to investigate this kind of thing,\" Fire Chief Jack McArthur said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Phillips 66 reopened its marine terminal and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/28/phillips-66-refinery-in-rodeo-reopens-marine-terminal-as-oil-spill-investigation-continues/\" target=\"_blank\">the oil tanker tied to the spill\u003c/a> was allowed to leave San Pablo Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Fails to Buy Promised Air-Monitoring Gear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months after the apparent spill and resulting fumes, Chief McArthur, Mayor Bob Sampayan and City Manager Daniel Keen all told KQED that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/02/oil-spill-sickening-odor-prompt-vallejo-to-consider-buying-new-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">they wanted new air monitors\u003c/a> because the ones the city does have did not detect anything the night of the odor incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sampayan went further. He \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/19/new-vallejo-mayor-wants-oil-industry-to-pay-for-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">called on the oil industry to pay for new monitors\u003c/a> in Vallejo and communities near the four major oil refineries in Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months after the mysterious odor, the city has yet to buy new devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have identified the equipment we think will be most useful, but have not yet purchased it,\" Keen said in a recent email. \"This will be part of budget discussions we'll be having with the City Council shortly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still carrying this as a priority project,\" Sampayan said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, it was just recently that -- for the first time since the odor -- Vallejo city officials met with Bay Area Air Quality Management District staff to discuss the September mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air Regulators: No Documentation on Vallejo Incident \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says it completed its investigation into the noxious fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Air District reached the same conclusions as the lead agency (U.S. Coast Guard),\" district spokesman Ralph Borrmann said in a recent email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies were unable to determine the exact cause of the spill. In addition there was no conclusive determination for the cause of the odor in Vallejo,\" Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED requested a copy of the air district's report about the odor. But no report was ever written, Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We only write a report when a violation of a district regulation is documented,\" Borrmann said. \"In this case there were no violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED then requested copies of all documents and email correspondence related to the air district's work on the odor and spill. But no such materials exist, district officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have spoken to our enforcement staff, and there are no documents or emails,\" wrote Rochelle Reed, an employee at the air district's public records office, in an email. \"The air district had a minor role, and staff consulted by phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coast Guard Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district is not the only agency that has failed to produce evidence of its inquiry into the Phillips 66 oil spill that apparently led to the Vallejo incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Coast Guard seeking documentation of its spill investigation beyond the summary it offered in an October press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release said the agency's inquiry determined both Phillips 66 and Teekay Shipping, the owner of the oil tanker Yamuna Spirit, were responsible for the spill. The Coast Guard said the substance found in San Pablo Bay matched the light Arabian crude the tanker was transferring to the refinery, though it was unable to determine how much oil was released into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/refinery-shipping-firm-dispute-finding-theyre-responsible-for-oil-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">dispute\u003c/a> the Coast Guard findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard says its response and investigation cost the agency around $36,000. 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Its cause is still a mystery, and a top Vallejo city official calls that lack of knowledge \"alarming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very frustrating,\" Vallejo City Manager Daniel Keen said. \"We still are in the dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without those answers, Vallejo Fire Chief Jack McArthur said the city needs to get ready for a potential repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We might have to face the fact that we might not ever know exactly what happened,\" McArthur said. \"We need to prepare for the possibility that this could very well happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Coast Guard's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/refinery-shipping-firm-dispute-finding-theyre-responsible-for-oil-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a>, completed last month, determined that the oil spill came from either the Phillips 66 refinery marine terminal in Rodeo or an oil tanker that was unloading crude there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"GsRUeaCdorLXHPSUeCd5uB87cmzZBtxQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's report did not determine what caused the spill. 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That system includes dozens of control centers, sirens and communications systems that notify the public in case of emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to go through what we went through the last time we had this incident,\" Keen said. \"We're going to be having some conversations with regulators about what else could be done to protect our residents from a discharge like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of those residents say the city has kept them in the dark about the entire episode and they're worried that the environmental health of the community is not a priority at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo does a poor job of monitoring its air, it failed to adequately alert people to shelter in place the night of the odor and its leaders have not reassured their constituents they're doing enough about it, said resident Heather Mathews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews created a Facebook page called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/303126756731690/?fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\">Phillips 66 Spill Vallejo\u003c/a>\" which has become a community forum for residents to discuss the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There needs to be a complete overhaul of the sensors,\" Matthews said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that the city and the air district's air monitors did not detect anything abnormal outrages resident Liz King. \"That just tells me that we aren't equipped for independent testing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that nobody is able to quantify what happened has clarified that our ability to safely identify these events and protect ourselves is disturbingly insufficient,\" King said. \"How can we accurately respond to illnesses and treat the public if we don't know what they've been poisoned with?\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 2:57 p.m. Thursday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A unified command is inspecting the tanker docked at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, where operations have been temporarily suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company that owns the crude oil tanker -- known as the Yamuna Spirit -- says it is cooperating with local agencies through the unified command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A combination of federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response, say they are investigating a \"broad range of potential sheen sources\" that include refineries, facilities and vessels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a press release from the unified command, there has been no visible sheen surrounding the dock or in the northern part of San Pablo Bay since Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Fish and Wildlife officials say they have found no oiled wildlife in the water. 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I would describe the smell as some kind of heavy petroleum distill,\" Miller said. \"It's similar to the smell you would get driving by an oil tank farm except much, much more intense, to the point where the city finally issued a shelter-in-place alert around 8:30.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several hours Wednesday morning there was no ferry service between Vallejo and San Francisco due to the oil sheen, which had coated two ferryboats. 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There were 83 water line breaks, and 59 have been repaired.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Napa Valley Unified School District\u003c/strong> campuses resumed classes on Wednesday Aug. 27, with the exception of Stonebridge School.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>PG&E has all\u003c/strong> but completed the job of restoring power to the tens of thousands of customers who were in the dark immediately after the temblor. Monday morning, the utility reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/alerts/morealerts.page?WT.ac=ContactUs_Alerts_Earthquake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fewer than 100 customers\u003c/a> without power.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials now estimate that the earthquake caused $300 million in damage to homes and commercial properties. The city has waived all inspection and permit fees for people who have suffered earthquake damage. About 800 people have called for an inspection, and there are 60 building inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Napa officials say the list of badly damaged buildings in the city has grown dramatically as inspectors continue the long, slow process of assessing structures in the wake of Sunday’s earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city said at a Tuesday afternoon press conference that it expects to have red-tagged 120 structures by the end of the day. That means they’re unsafe to enter pending further assessment or repairs. Another 500 have been yellow-tagged, meaning that while premises may be entered, they’re unfit for occupancy. (Here’s \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/1lsdLpf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city’s map of red-tagged properties\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim asked City Manager Mike Parness how many of the tagged buildings are residences. Parness said he was unsure about that number and was also unable to say how many residents might have been displaced because their homes are at least temporarily uninhabitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it has a backlog of 800 calls for inspections. Officials are triaging the most serious situations and say that inspectors are responding within a day or two of calls. Less serious damage could take a week to two weeks to inspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:20 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Scores of small aftershocks have followed the Sunday morning temblor, including an attention-getting cluster of quakes early Tuesday. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the strongest of those was a 3.9-magnitude shake at 5:33 a.m. centered just south of Napa. That was followed by shocks of 2.7, 1.9, 2.8 and 3.0 over the next 72 minutes. We haven’t heard any reports of damage following the series of small quakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Vallejo, demolition crews took down a portion of an unstable bell tower at the First Baptist Church. The tower was deemed dangerous after an inspection Monday and surrounding streets, including Sonoma Boulevard (Highway 29) were closed until the hazard was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Continuing fallout from Sunday’s South Napa Earthquake: Officials in Vallejo have closed a two-block stretch of one of the city’s principal streets because of concerns that a church bell tower could collapse, and Napa’s school district announced that schools will remain closed Tuesday and possibly beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Craig Miller reports that Vallejo’s First Baptist Church, at the corner of Carolina Street and Sonoma Boulevard, has been red-tagged. Among the church’s structural concerns: that the bell tower has been weakened to the point where it might collapse. This fear has prompted officials to close Sonoma Boulevard, which is also Highway 29, for two blocks on either side of the church. The closure also affects Lincoln Elementary School, immediately across the street from First Baptist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Kleinschmidt, Vallejo’s public works director, said the city hoped to partially demolish the tower late Monday or Tuesday morning and that Sonoma Boulevard will remain closed until that job is done. First Baptist is one of 10 buildings in the city that have been red-tagged, or declared unsafe for occupation, at least for the time being. Another 34 buildings have been yellow-tagged, deemed safe to enter but not to stay in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofnapa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1835:red-tagged-structures-list-as-of-245pm-aug-25&catid=1:latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated the number of buildings red-tagged there\u003c/a> to 64. Among the buildings shut down is the city’s historic courthouse building, and county officials announced today that the building will be closed indefinitely as it undergoes structural analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other major public buildings, including the Napa County Administration Building, were closed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvusd.k12.ca.us/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1286954361698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Unified School District announced\u003c/a> schools across the city will remain closed Tuesday as staff cleans up after the quake. The district will make a decision Tuesday about whether the closure will be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:55 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> KQED reporter Mina Kim says that hardhats and orange vests are the order of the day in downtown Napa as the city begins the process of recovering from Sunday morning’s 6.0 earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of activity downtown,” Kim says. “All the street closures in the area are still in effect. Damaged buildings still have police tape around them. There are more bricks in the street today because crews are taking down damaged facades and they’re starting to clear them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Gadlin, manager of the Lucero Olive Oil store in downtown Napa, started work at 5:30 a.m. Monday to finish cleaning up so the business could open on schedule at 10 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lucero store was widely pictured as one of the businesses damaged in the quake, with olive oil and balsamic vinegar flowing and seeping under the store’s front entrance. Today there’s a pile of kitty litter near the front door, used to soak up Sunday’s oozing mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took a lot of paper towels, rags and cat litter to pick up the oil,” Gadlin says. “And now we’re making sure we get rid of all the cat litter and all the stickiness, and I’m sure we’ll be finding it in strange places for weeks to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadlin says about 500 bottles of olive oil and balsamic vinegar were smashed when thrown from shelves during the quake. He estimates the retail value of the lost inventory at about $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a lot worse,” he says. “Nobody got hurt. It happened in the middle of the night, and we got lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the bigger postquake disruptions in Napa today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa Valley Unified School District, with schools in Napa and Yountville, has shut down for the day so staff can clean up classrooms. The county administration building, its interior a shambles after the quake, is also closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Vallejo are also assessing buildings along a Tennessee Street commercial strip and on Mare Island, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/breaking_news/ci_26399058/captains-row-chimneys-kod-by-quake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several historic buildings were closed \u003c/a>for postquake inspections. Officials estimated Monday that structures in the city sustained about $5 million in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”or0HqTKDYdS53huDi2AUft9LEgOslbzv”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9:35 p.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofnapa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa officials are advising residents\u003c/a> who lost water service completely for any period of time after today’s earthquake to use bottled water, boil their water before drinking or get water from the station set up by the city on Pearl Street one block west of Main or at the Las Flores Center on Linda Vista Avenue. Officials say water is safe for bathing and other household uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> 7,600 residents in Napa County are still without power, while full power has been restored to Sonoma County. Napa City Manager Mike Parness said that PG&E informed him that full power would be restored to Napa residents 1 p.m. Monday at the latest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Napa Community Development Director Rick Tooker, 33 buildings have been red-tagged, or deemed unsafe, while an unknown number of buildings have been yellow-tagged (“owners should be going in only to clean the premises.”) The 33 buildings deemed unsafe are a combination of older unreinforced masonry and newer constructions, some of which have had recent retrofit work done, according to Tooker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa Public Works Director Jacques Larochelle said that 60 properties in the city are currently without water, but that all repairs to restore water to the properties (a mix of commercial and residential) are expected to be completed by Wednesday or Thursday of this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4:50 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Walt Mickens, CEO of Napa’s Queen of the Valley Hospital, just reported that the facility has treated 172 people since the quake struck at 3:20 a.m. and that patients continue to arrive with quake-related injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those 172 people, 159 were treated and released with injuries such as lacerations and bruises; 13 patients were admitted, including seven with what he called “orthopedic conditions” — broken bones — five with respiratory or cardiac conditions, and one person whose condition was not related to the quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3:55 p.m:\u003c/strong> According to California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci, 90-100 homes in total have been red-tagged at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briefing the media after assessing damage to the region, Ghilarducci said O.E.S. has received reports that shaking was felt as far north as Ukiah and as far south as Salinas. “While the damage was bad, it’s not as bad as it could’ve been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to California State Geologist John Parrish, there have been roughly 50 to 60 aftershocks since Sunday morning’s quake, the strongest being 3.6. While geologists don’t expect another large earthquake, aftershocks are expected to continue with decreasing magnitude and importance for several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a reminder that we live in earthquake country. None of us are immune to this,” Parrish said, while urging residents in and around Napa to replenish earthquake supply kits and be cautious about what structures you enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrish also explained that the geology around the epicenter, consisting predominantly of soft muds, helped reduce the scope and scale of the damage by reducing shaking at ground level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Residents of Vallejo were also hit hard by this morning’s earthquake. Congressman Mike Thompson told KQED that 41 buildings had been red-tagged, deemed unfit for habitation. There have also been 16 water main breaks. The Mare Island Maritime Museum and old officers’ mansions have all sustained damage and lost their chimneys. The U.S. Forest Service building also had a major water main break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve had a considerable damage. Especially down in the Tenneessee Street area and over on Mare Island,” said Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:53 p.m.:\u003c/strong> About 16 buildings in Napa City have been red-tagged, said city officials. Historic buildings have also sustained damage. Four mobile homes were destroyed after a fire at the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park in north Napa. Two other fires in residential areas were extinguished by Napa fire crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 people have called about natural gas leaks, said Napa Fire Chief Mike Randolph. If you smell gas, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/outages/gas/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call PG&E at 1-800-PGE-5000\u003c/a>. If you have shut off your gas service, do not turn it back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 17,000 PG&E customers are still without power, most of them in the city of Napa. When the earthquake hit, about 70,000 homes lost power in Napa, Sonoma and Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All public schools in the city of Napa and the Justin Siena Catholic High School are closed on Monday. Napa Valley Unified District teachers still need to report. Sonoma State University will be open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials report that several Napa County services will be unavailable on Monday, according to county officials. Damage to the county building at 900 Coombs St. is too extensive to open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither assessor, recorder-county clerk nor Election services will be available to the public tomorrow, according to John Tuteur, county clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working with the Board of Supervisors, Information Technology and Public Works to restore services at an alternate location as quickly as possible,” Tuteur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> About 120 patients have been treated for earthquake-related injuries, said Queen of the Valley President Walt Mickens. Fewer than 10 were admitted, and three are still in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of injuries are non-life threatening: lacerations, cuts, abrasions, bumps and bruises. One patient has multiple fractures. One heart attack. A handful are being admitted to the hospital. Most are treated and released,” Mickens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Mickens warned residents to be careful, saying that many of the new injuries stem from cleanup efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 water lines are currently down, said Director of Public Works Jacques LaRochelle at a city press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How big was the earthquake? Although the shaking lasted a long time, its intensity was much lower than the Loma Prieta Earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Eeathquake-map-Aug-24th.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145755\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Eeathquake-map-Aug-24th.jpeg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"528\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:25 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A one-line message from the California Highway Patrol gives the all-clear for motorists headed to major sporting events today: “CHP – GOLDEN GATE: EARTHQUAKE UPDATE: All bridges/roads in CHP jurisdiction safe for travel. Access to Sonoma Raceway/Levi Stadium open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a link to the CHP’s detailed summary of post-quake road conditions in the region: \u003ca href=\"http://local.nixle.com/alert/5255570/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earthquake Update (via Nixle)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to KQED’s Sarah Baughn for the heads-up on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:15 a.m.: \u003c/strong>A clarification on the earthquake magnitude: The U.S. Geological Survey is, as of this very moment, calling \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the South Napa Earthquake a 6.0-magnitude event.\u003c/a> A couple hours ago, the USGS had moved the magnitude up to a 6.1 shake. Before that, it was rated at 6.0. And immediately after it happened, it was rated a 5.9. This obviously makes it hard to choose a number to put in a blog post, but we’re going to go with what’s current from the USGS. So back to 6.0 we go until the agency recalculates again. (We understand from listening to USGS scientist David Oppenheimer earlier this morning that there were some “rounding” issues in rating this quake.) And: We apologize for any discrepancies in the numbers we’ve displayed to this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9:45 a.m.: \u003c/strong>The transit impact of the South Napa earthquake, as reported by Bay City News:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor train service has been temporarily suspended this morning between Sacramento and San Jose while crews inspect the tracks for damage following the earthquake early this morning near American Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACE special train service between Stockton and San Jose for this afternoon’s San Francisco 49ers football game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara has also been canceled because of safety concerns following the quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain officials said they expect to run service to the football game but said there are delays this morning because of track and bridge inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART had pre-planned delays because of track maintenance on its Pittsburg-Bay Point line but has not reported any other disruptions this morning as a result of the quake.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:20 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Napa city officials are briefing the media on the impact of the earthquake in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack LaRochelle, Napa’s public works director, said the most urgent issue is damage to the city’s water system. He said there are about 30 significant water main breaks, most in the Browns Valley area on the city’s west side. He said the city’s water plants are fine and are tapping a second source of water, from Lake Hennessey, northeast of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no immediate estimate of the number of buildings that have been or will be red-tagged because of earthquake damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials said they have gotten about 100 reports of gas leaks from residents and that PG&E crews have been responding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:10 a.m.: \u003c/strong>To summarize:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A 6.0-magnitude earthquake epicentered at the southern edge of Napa struck at 3:20 a.m. The quake is the strongest to strike the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta quake of Oct. 17, 1989.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The U.S. Geological Survey link to seismic details on the quake: \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa-North Bay Earthquake\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>So far, 87 injuries have been reported in Napa. Three people were critically injured.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Widespread damage is reported in the city of Napa ranging from burst water mains to the collapse of commercial building facades in downtown Napa to extensive exterior and interior damage of single-story homes in the surrounding area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Several major fires started after the quake, including one in a mobile home park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E reports tens of thousands of homes have been without power in Napa and Sonoma counties and Vallejo in Solano County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The California Highway Patrol and Caltrans are assessing damage to roads in the North Bay. Numerous pictures of buckled roads have appeared on Twitter. A major interchange at the Vallejo end of Highway 37 has been closed because of roadway damage, though Highway 37 remains open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncedc.org/recenteqs/QuakeAddons/NC72282711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geologists say\u003c/a> the chance of a magnitude 5 aftershock in the next seven days is 54 percent. The chances of a quake larger than the main shock in the next week is 5 to 10 percent. More than a dozen aftershocks followed the Sunday quake, the strongest a 3.6 shake at 5:47 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 8:30 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Here’s a quick list of quake impacts from the city of Napa:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>INJURIES:\u003c/strong> 87 patients have been treated or are being treated at Queen of the Valley Hospital. There are three critically injured persons, 2 adults and one child.\u003cbr>\nFour mobile homes destroyed and two others damaged by fire on Orchard Avenue in north Napa.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>GAS LINES: \u003c/strong>Crews are responding to reported gas line breaks in a variety of locations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>WATER MAINS: \u003c/strong>There are approximately 30 water main leaks. Both water treatment plants running, no damage. Some areas have no water due to main breaks and some areas no or low pressure. Water remains safe to drink.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City crews are assessing infrastructure damage and damage to homes and other buildings.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Historic Buildings damaged\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n• Sam Kee Laundry\u003cbr>\n• Goodman Library\u003cbr>\n• Napa County Courthouse\u003cbr>\nAt least two commercial buildings in the downtown area are also severely damaged.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>SHELTERS:\u003c/strong> The Red Cross evacuation center has been set up in the Napa High School gym.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drop boxes for debris will be placed at all public schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:15 a.m.: \u003c/strong> From the Associated Press accounts of the quake:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement this morning the impact of the earthquake is being felt throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My Office of Emergency Services has been on full activation since early this morning and is working close with state and local emergency managers, first responders and transportation officials to respond to impacts to residents and critical infrastructure,” he said. “These safety officials are doing all they can to help residents and those living in affected areas should follow their guidance and instruction.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And again from AP, a Napa emergency responder:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There’s collapses, fires,” said Napa Fire Capt. Doug Bridewell, standing in front of large pieces of masonry that broke loose from a turn of the century office building where a fire had just been extinguished. “That’s the worst shaking I’ve ever been in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridewell, who said he had to climb over fallen furniture in his own home to check on his family before reporting to duty, said he was starting to see more reports of injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shaking emptied cabinets in homes and store shelves, set off car alarms and had residents of neighboring Sonoma County running out of their houses and talking about damage inside their homes. Officials say widespread power outages have been reported in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:50 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Again, by way of KCBS: Queen of the Valley Hospital is reporting having treated 87 people injured in this morning’s earthquake. Three of those injuries are reportedly critical — a child hit by falling masonry and two adults with undescribed injuries. The rest of the injuries have been minor, including lacerations caused by flying glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:10 a.m.:\u003c/strong> By way of an interview on KCBS: David Oppenheimer of U.S. Geological Survey is saying that this morning’s earthquake occurred on the West Napa Fault, and the agency has named the event the South Napa Earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, reports of damage continue to come in from downtown Napa. In the area that suffered the most severe damage, building facades have collapsed and chunks of buildings continue to fall in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle reports: “Napa Fire Capt. Steve Becker said there were “numerous” injuries reported across Napa, but details were not immediately available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 a.m.:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2575107-181/60-quake-rocks-northern-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An account by way of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat \u003c/a>of one major fire in Napa:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fire ripped through more than 10 units at Napa Valley Mobile Home Park, off Orchard Avenue. Four homes in the complex were a total loss, with up to eight additional units suffering minor to moderate damage, Napa Fire Capt. Steve Becker. No injuries were reported, but dozens of residents were evacuated to the complex’s clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage at the mobile home park appeared to be the worst in the Napa area, Becker said. The cause was under investigation, but appeared to be linked to gas line ruptures, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Andre Van Derheyden said he and his wife were jolted awake by the quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It blew us out of bed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the couple were able to gather their dog and get outside, the mobile home next door was on fire, he said. The resident, a woman, was able to escape, but her home was a total loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank heaven we are fine, but I feel so bad for my neighbor,” said Van Derheyden.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:50 a.m.: \u003c/strong>To summarize:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A 6.0-magnitude earthquake epicentered at the southern edge of Napa struck at 3:20 a.m. The 6.0 quake is the strongest to strike the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta quake of Oct. 17, 1989.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The U.S. Geological Survey link to seismic details on the quake: \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa-North Bay Earthquake\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Injuries have been reported in Napa, but there are no authoritative reports yet as to the number or severity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Damage is reported in the city of Napa ranging from the collapse of commercial building facades in downtown Napa to extensive exterior and interior damage of single-story homes in the surrounding area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Witnesses are reporting two major fires at the northern end of Napa, one possibly in a mobile home park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E reports thousands of homes are without power in Napa and Sonoma counties and Vallejo in Solano County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The California Highway Patrol and Caltrans are assessing damage to roads in the North Bay. Numerous pictures of buckled roads have appeared on Twitter. A major interchange at the Vallejo end of Highway 37 has been closed because of roadway damage, though Highway 37 remains open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncedc.org/recenteqs/QuakeAddons/NC72282711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geologists say\u003c/a> the chance of a magnitude 5 aftershock in the next seven days is 54 percent. The chances of a quake larger than the main shock in the next week is 5 to 10 percent. Two small aftershocks have been recorded so far: a 2.5-magnitude shake at 5:01 a.m. and a 3.6 shake at 5:47 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:05 a.m.: \u003c/strong>KQED’s Craig Miller checks in from the Mare Island Bridge on Highway 37:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I talked to a guy from Caltrans who says he is the bridge supervisor. He said he wasn’t aware of any bridge closure, though he said there was damage to Sonoma Boulevard [nearby in the city of Vallejo] where pavement had buckled. There are emergency vehicles on the bridge, but I can also see traffic moving across it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KCBS is carrying a witness account from Rob Downey, a Napa business owner, who reports severe damage to several historic buildings in downtown. He said damage seemed to be concentrated near in a quadrant bounded by Main, Second, Third and Brown streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:55 a.m. \u003c/strong>More details from KQED’s Craig Miller in Vallejo: He’s been at the scene of a single commercial block of Tennessee Street near intersection of Broadway where there’s significant damage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There are at least seven storefronts, including a Chase Bank, with windows blown out. In some cases, glass had blown out into the middle of the street. This was a block with about seven different businesses, including a music story, a bridal store and a jewelry store. You can see that part of the ceiling or roof is coming down in the music store. It’s really kind of bizarre — here’s one block in Vallejo with all this damage, and then when you look across the street everything is fine.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Craig’s on his way to check on the situation at the Mare Island Bridge in Highway 37, which has been reported closed because of possible quake damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:35 a.m.:\u003c/strong> From all the reports we’ve heard over the last hour-plus, it’s apparent that the worst of the damage from this morning’s quake is focused in the city of Napa and surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unconfirmed reports — unconfirmed — relayed by KCBS say there’s been some road and possible bridge damage on Highway 12 in Napa and Highway 37 in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KCBS reporter Curtis Kim went on the air with a report that the California Highway Patrol was closing one of the Highway 37 bridges in Vallejo. We’re not sure from the report which bridge it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:25 a.m.:\u003c/strong> KQED’s Craig Miller is touring the streets of Vallejo and says there are signs of emergency response in the areas he’s seen — damage to some building and sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From KQED’s Scott Shafer: \u003c/em>Cheri Hansen of the Napa County Sheriff’s office says: “Everything’s upside down here. Things have flown out of the cabinets. My computer flew off the desk. We have power because we have a generator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:08 a.m.:\u003c/strong> KQED reporter Mina Kim lives in Napa, near the epicenter of this morning’s earthquake. She said she experienced violent shaking. In her words, “Everything came down” from the walls. “Our refrigerator moved across the kitchen. All the shelves came down.” She said she and her husband turned off their gas and are assessing the damage. She also reported a fire is visible in the distance, though she’s not sure what’s burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Smoot, a KCBS editor, came on the air to report a major power outage in large parts of the Sonoma Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By way of KQED’s Scott Shafer, who just got off the phone with the U.S. Geological Survey, here are a few more details on where and when the quake struck from Frank Baldwin, a USGS geophysicist in Golden, Colorado:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was felt over a wide area. It’s a shallow quake and we haven’t heard any reports of damage, although it has the potential for damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s about 6 miles deep and usually when you have a shallow quake it generates more surface waves, which are felt more predominantly throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fault line has not been determined yet, but we’ll be looking at that over the next hours or days by the Northern California seismic network.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 3:45 a.m.:\u003c/strong> The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded an earthquake that rolled through the Bay Area at 3:20 a.m. and 44 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\">USGS data shows\u003c/a> the quake was a 6.0 quake that struck between Napa and the community of American Canyon. That’s the approximate location of the Rogers Creek Fault in the North Bay. The USGS reported the depth of the epicenter as 10.8 kilometers, relatively shallow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was an unusually long earthquake compared with most recent shakes in the Bay Area, lasting at least 10 seconds, with many callers to KCBS in the immediate aftermath saying they felt movement for as long as 20 seconds. In Berkeley, where this account is being written, the quake was a continuous side-to-side shaking as opposed to a strong, abrupt shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S.G.S. “Did You Feel It” page showed the quake was felt across the Bay Area from Sonoma through Santa Cruz County. So far, we have no reports of damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More coming.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/IMG_4794.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/IMG_4794-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Workers begin process of dismantling the bell tower of Vallejo's First Baptist Church. (Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers begin process of dismantling the bell tower of Vallejo’s First Baptist Church. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>South Napa Quake: The Facts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>A 6.0-magnitude earthquake\u003c/strong> with an epicenter at the southern edge of Napa struck at 3:20 a.m on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. The quake was the strongest to strike the Bay Area since the 6.9 Loma Prieta quake of Oct. 17, 1989.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>A series of aftershocks\u003c/strong> shook the earthquake zone early Tuesday, the strongest a 3.9 shake felt at 5:33 a.m. Tuesday. The U.S. Geological Survey revised its estimate Monday of the chances for a strong, damaging aftershock in the next seven days. Sunday, the agency put that chance at 54 percent. Monday, that figure was revised to 25 percent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The U.S. Geological Survey\u003c/strong> link to seismic details on the quake: \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa-North Bay Earthquake\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Napa’s Queen of the Valley Hospital \u003c/strong>reports treating 209 people between the time the earthquake struck at 3:20 a.m. and 11 p.m. Sunday. The hospital says a total of 17 people were admitted, most in fair to serious condition. One person remains in critical condition. Vallejo reported 49 injuries, with two people hospitalized.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Napa and Vallejo\u003c/strong> are still assessing damage to structures. On Tuesday, Napa announced it has red-tagged 113 buildings as unsafe to enter because of extensive damage; another 500 have been yellow-tagged as unfit for occupancy until repairs are made. Vallejo officials red-tagged 10 buildings and yellow-tagged about 40 others.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Napa Fire Department \u003c/strong> reported Monday it responded to 50 fires after the quake, including one in a mobile home park that destroyed four units and damaged several others. Fire officials said an initial lack of water due to water main breaks led to some of the destruction.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Napa’s water system\u003c/strong> is still under repair. There were 83 water line breaks, and 59 have been repaired.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Napa Valley Unified School District\u003c/strong> campuses resumed classes on Wednesday Aug. 27, with the exception of Stonebridge School.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>PG&E has all\u003c/strong> but completed the job of restoring power to the tens of thousands of customers who were in the dark immediately after the temblor. Monday morning, the utility reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/alerts/morealerts.page?WT.ac=ContactUs_Alerts_Earthquake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fewer than 100 customers\u003c/a> without power.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials now estimate that the earthquake caused $300 million in damage to homes and commercial properties. The city has waived all inspection and permit fees for people who have suffered earthquake damage. About 800 people have called for an inspection, and there are 60 building inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Napa officials say the list of badly damaged buildings in the city has grown dramatically as inspectors continue the long, slow process of assessing structures in the wake of Sunday’s earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city said at a Tuesday afternoon press conference that it expects to have red-tagged 120 structures by the end of the day. That means they’re unsafe to enter pending further assessment or repairs. Another 500 have been yellow-tagged, meaning that while premises may be entered, they’re unfit for occupancy. (Here’s \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/1lsdLpf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city’s map of red-tagged properties\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim asked City Manager Mike Parness how many of the tagged buildings are residences. Parness said he was unsure about that number and was also unable to say how many residents might have been displaced because their homes are at least temporarily uninhabitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it has a backlog of 800 calls for inspections. Officials are triaging the most serious situations and say that inspectors are responding within a day or two of calls. Less serious damage could take a week to two weeks to inspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:20 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Scores of small aftershocks have followed the Sunday morning temblor, including an attention-getting cluster of quakes early Tuesday. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the strongest of those was a 3.9-magnitude shake at 5:33 a.m. centered just south of Napa. That was followed by shocks of 2.7, 1.9, 2.8 and 3.0 over the next 72 minutes. We haven’t heard any reports of damage following the series of small quakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Vallejo, demolition crews took down a portion of an unstable bell tower at the First Baptist Church. The tower was deemed dangerous after an inspection Monday and surrounding streets, including Sonoma Boulevard (Highway 29) were closed until the hazard was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Continuing fallout from Sunday’s South Napa Earthquake: Officials in Vallejo have closed a two-block stretch of one of the city’s principal streets because of concerns that a church bell tower could collapse, and Napa’s school district announced that schools will remain closed Tuesday and possibly beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Craig Miller reports that Vallejo’s First Baptist Church, at the corner of Carolina Street and Sonoma Boulevard, has been red-tagged. Among the church’s structural concerns: that the bell tower has been weakened to the point where it might collapse. This fear has prompted officials to close Sonoma Boulevard, which is also Highway 29, for two blocks on either side of the church. The closure also affects Lincoln Elementary School, immediately across the street from First Baptist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Kleinschmidt, Vallejo’s public works director, said the city hoped to partially demolish the tower late Monday or Tuesday morning and that Sonoma Boulevard will remain closed until that job is done. First Baptist is one of 10 buildings in the city that have been red-tagged, or declared unsafe for occupation, at least for the time being. Another 34 buildings have been yellow-tagged, deemed safe to enter but not to stay in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofnapa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1835:red-tagged-structures-list-as-of-245pm-aug-25&catid=1:latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated the number of buildings red-tagged there\u003c/a> to 64. Among the buildings shut down is the city’s historic courthouse building, and county officials announced today that the building will be closed indefinitely as it undergoes structural analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other major public buildings, including the Napa County Administration Building, were closed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvusd.k12.ca.us/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1286954361698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Unified School District announced\u003c/a> schools across the city will remain closed Tuesday as staff cleans up after the quake. The district will make a decision Tuesday about whether the closure will be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:55 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> KQED reporter Mina Kim says that hardhats and orange vests are the order of the day in downtown Napa as the city begins the process of recovering from Sunday morning’s 6.0 earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of activity downtown,” Kim says. “All the street closures in the area are still in effect. Damaged buildings still have police tape around them. There are more bricks in the street today because crews are taking down damaged facades and they’re starting to clear them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Gadlin, manager of the Lucero Olive Oil store in downtown Napa, started work at 5:30 a.m. Monday to finish cleaning up so the business could open on schedule at 10 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lucero store was widely pictured as one of the businesses damaged in the quake, with olive oil and balsamic vinegar flowing and seeping under the store’s front entrance. Today there’s a pile of kitty litter near the front door, used to soak up Sunday’s oozing mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took a lot of paper towels, rags and cat litter to pick up the oil,” Gadlin says. “And now we’re making sure we get rid of all the cat litter and all the stickiness, and I’m sure we’ll be finding it in strange places for weeks to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadlin says about 500 bottles of olive oil and balsamic vinegar were smashed when thrown from shelves during the quake. He estimates the retail value of the lost inventory at about $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a lot worse,” he says. “Nobody got hurt. It happened in the middle of the night, and we got lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the bigger postquake disruptions in Napa today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa Valley Unified School District, with schools in Napa and Yountville, has shut down for the day so staff can clean up classrooms. The county administration building, its interior a shambles after the quake, is also closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Vallejo are also assessing buildings along a Tennessee Street commercial strip and on Mare Island, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/breaking_news/ci_26399058/captains-row-chimneys-kod-by-quake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several historic buildings were closed \u003c/a>for postquake inspections. Officials estimated Monday that structures in the city sustained about $5 million in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9:35 p.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofnapa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa officials are advising residents\u003c/a> who lost water service completely for any period of time after today’s earthquake to use bottled water, boil their water before drinking or get water from the station set up by the city on Pearl Street one block west of Main or at the Las Flores Center on Linda Vista Avenue. Officials say water is safe for bathing and other household uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> 7,600 residents in Napa County are still without power, while full power has been restored to Sonoma County. Napa City Manager Mike Parness said that PG&E informed him that full power would be restored to Napa residents 1 p.m. Monday at the latest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Napa Community Development Director Rick Tooker, 33 buildings have been red-tagged, or deemed unsafe, while an unknown number of buildings have been yellow-tagged (“owners should be going in only to clean the premises.”) The 33 buildings deemed unsafe are a combination of older unreinforced masonry and newer constructions, some of which have had recent retrofit work done, according to Tooker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa Public Works Director Jacques Larochelle said that 60 properties in the city are currently without water, but that all repairs to restore water to the properties (a mix of commercial and residential) are expected to be completed by Wednesday or Thursday of this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4:50 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Walt Mickens, CEO of Napa’s Queen of the Valley Hospital, just reported that the facility has treated 172 people since the quake struck at 3:20 a.m. and that patients continue to arrive with quake-related injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those 172 people, 159 were treated and released with injuries such as lacerations and bruises; 13 patients were admitted, including seven with what he called “orthopedic conditions” — broken bones — five with respiratory or cardiac conditions, and one person whose condition was not related to the quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3:55 p.m:\u003c/strong> According to California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci, 90-100 homes in total have been red-tagged at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briefing the media after assessing damage to the region, Ghilarducci said O.E.S. has received reports that shaking was felt as far north as Ukiah and as far south as Salinas. “While the damage was bad, it’s not as bad as it could’ve been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to California State Geologist John Parrish, there have been roughly 50 to 60 aftershocks since Sunday morning’s quake, the strongest being 3.6. While geologists don’t expect another large earthquake, aftershocks are expected to continue with decreasing magnitude and importance for several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a reminder that we live in earthquake country. None of us are immune to this,” Parrish said, while urging residents in and around Napa to replenish earthquake supply kits and be cautious about what structures you enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrish also explained that the geology around the epicenter, consisting predominantly of soft muds, helped reduce the scope and scale of the damage by reducing shaking at ground level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Residents of Vallejo were also hit hard by this morning’s earthquake. Congressman Mike Thompson told KQED that 41 buildings had been red-tagged, deemed unfit for habitation. There have also been 16 water main breaks. The Mare Island Maritime Museum and old officers’ mansions have all sustained damage and lost their chimneys. The U.S. Forest Service building also had a major water main break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve had a considerable damage. Especially down in the Tenneessee Street area and over on Mare Island,” said Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:53 p.m.:\u003c/strong> About 16 buildings in Napa City have been red-tagged, said city officials. Historic buildings have also sustained damage. Four mobile homes were destroyed after a fire at the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park in north Napa. Two other fires in residential areas were extinguished by Napa fire crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 people have called about natural gas leaks, said Napa Fire Chief Mike Randolph. If you smell gas, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/outages/gas/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call PG&E at 1-800-PGE-5000\u003c/a>. If you have shut off your gas service, do not turn it back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 17,000 PG&E customers are still without power, most of them in the city of Napa. When the earthquake hit, about 70,000 homes lost power in Napa, Sonoma and Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All public schools in the city of Napa and the Justin Siena Catholic High School are closed on Monday. Napa Valley Unified District teachers still need to report. Sonoma State University will be open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials report that several Napa County services will be unavailable on Monday, according to county officials. Damage to the county building at 900 Coombs St. is too extensive to open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither assessor, recorder-county clerk nor Election services will be available to the public tomorrow, according to John Tuteur, county clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working with the Board of Supervisors, Information Technology and Public Works to restore services at an alternate location as quickly as possible,” Tuteur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> About 120 patients have been treated for earthquake-related injuries, said Queen of the Valley President Walt Mickens. Fewer than 10 were admitted, and three are still in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of injuries are non-life threatening: lacerations, cuts, abrasions, bumps and bruises. One patient has multiple fractures. One heart attack. A handful are being admitted to the hospital. Most are treated and released,” Mickens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Mickens warned residents to be careful, saying that many of the new injuries stem from cleanup efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 water lines are currently down, said Director of Public Works Jacques LaRochelle at a city press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How big was the earthquake? Although the shaking lasted a long time, its intensity was much lower than the Loma Prieta Earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Eeathquake-map-Aug-24th.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145755\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Eeathquake-map-Aug-24th.jpeg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"528\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:25 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A one-line message from the California Highway Patrol gives the all-clear for motorists headed to major sporting events today: “CHP – GOLDEN GATE: EARTHQUAKE UPDATE: All bridges/roads in CHP jurisdiction safe for travel. Access to Sonoma Raceway/Levi Stadium open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a link to the CHP’s detailed summary of post-quake road conditions in the region: \u003ca href=\"http://local.nixle.com/alert/5255570/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earthquake Update (via Nixle)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to KQED’s Sarah Baughn for the heads-up on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:15 a.m.: \u003c/strong>A clarification on the earthquake magnitude: The U.S. Geological Survey is, as of this very moment, calling \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the South Napa Earthquake a 6.0-magnitude event.\u003c/a> A couple hours ago, the USGS had moved the magnitude up to a 6.1 shake. Before that, it was rated at 6.0. And immediately after it happened, it was rated a 5.9. This obviously makes it hard to choose a number to put in a blog post, but we’re going to go with what’s current from the USGS. So back to 6.0 we go until the agency recalculates again. (We understand from listening to USGS scientist David Oppenheimer earlier this morning that there were some “rounding” issues in rating this quake.) And: We apologize for any discrepancies in the numbers we’ve displayed to this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9:45 a.m.: \u003c/strong>The transit impact of the South Napa earthquake, as reported by Bay City News:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor train service has been temporarily suspended this morning between Sacramento and San Jose while crews inspect the tracks for damage following the earthquake early this morning near American Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACE special train service between Stockton and San Jose for this afternoon’s San Francisco 49ers football game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara has also been canceled because of safety concerns following the quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain officials said they expect to run service to the football game but said there are delays this morning because of track and bridge inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART had pre-planned delays because of track maintenance on its Pittsburg-Bay Point line but has not reported any other disruptions this morning as a result of the quake.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:20 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Napa city officials are briefing the media on the impact of the earthquake in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack LaRochelle, Napa’s public works director, said the most urgent issue is damage to the city’s water system. He said there are about 30 significant water main breaks, most in the Browns Valley area on the city’s west side. He said the city’s water plants are fine and are tapping a second source of water, from Lake Hennessey, northeast of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no immediate estimate of the number of buildings that have been or will be red-tagged because of earthquake damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials said they have gotten about 100 reports of gas leaks from residents and that PG&E crews have been responding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:10 a.m.: \u003c/strong>To summarize:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A 6.0-magnitude earthquake epicentered at the southern edge of Napa struck at 3:20 a.m. The quake is the strongest to strike the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta quake of Oct. 17, 1989.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The U.S. Geological Survey link to seismic details on the quake: \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa-North Bay Earthquake\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>So far, 87 injuries have been reported in Napa. Three people were critically injured.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Widespread damage is reported in the city of Napa ranging from burst water mains to the collapse of commercial building facades in downtown Napa to extensive exterior and interior damage of single-story homes in the surrounding area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Several major fires started after the quake, including one in a mobile home park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E reports tens of thousands of homes have been without power in Napa and Sonoma counties and Vallejo in Solano County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The California Highway Patrol and Caltrans are assessing damage to roads in the North Bay. Numerous pictures of buckled roads have appeared on Twitter. A major interchange at the Vallejo end of Highway 37 has been closed because of roadway damage, though Highway 37 remains open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncedc.org/recenteqs/QuakeAddons/NC72282711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geologists say\u003c/a> the chance of a magnitude 5 aftershock in the next seven days is 54 percent. The chances of a quake larger than the main shock in the next week is 5 to 10 percent. More than a dozen aftershocks followed the Sunday quake, the strongest a 3.6 shake at 5:47 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 8:30 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Here’s a quick list of quake impacts from the city of Napa:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>INJURIES:\u003c/strong> 87 patients have been treated or are being treated at Queen of the Valley Hospital. There are three critically injured persons, 2 adults and one child.\u003cbr>\nFour mobile homes destroyed and two others damaged by fire on Orchard Avenue in north Napa.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>GAS LINES: \u003c/strong>Crews are responding to reported gas line breaks in a variety of locations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>WATER MAINS: \u003c/strong>There are approximately 30 water main leaks. Both water treatment plants running, no damage. Some areas have no water due to main breaks and some areas no or low pressure. Water remains safe to drink.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City crews are assessing infrastructure damage and damage to homes and other buildings.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Historic Buildings damaged\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n• Sam Kee Laundry\u003cbr>\n• Goodman Library\u003cbr>\n• Napa County Courthouse\u003cbr>\nAt least two commercial buildings in the downtown area are also severely damaged.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>SHELTERS:\u003c/strong> The Red Cross evacuation center has been set up in the Napa High School gym.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drop boxes for debris will be placed at all public schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:15 a.m.: \u003c/strong> From the Associated Press accounts of the quake:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement this morning the impact of the earthquake is being felt throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My Office of Emergency Services has been on full activation since early this morning and is working close with state and local emergency managers, first responders and transportation officials to respond to impacts to residents and critical infrastructure,” he said. “These safety officials are doing all they can to help residents and those living in affected areas should follow their guidance and instruction.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And again from AP, a Napa emergency responder:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There’s collapses, fires,” said Napa Fire Capt. Doug Bridewell, standing in front of large pieces of masonry that broke loose from a turn of the century office building where a fire had just been extinguished. “That’s the worst shaking I’ve ever been in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridewell, who said he had to climb over fallen furniture in his own home to check on his family before reporting to duty, said he was starting to see more reports of injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shaking emptied cabinets in homes and store shelves, set off car alarms and had residents of neighboring Sonoma County running out of their houses and talking about damage inside their homes. Officials say widespread power outages have been reported in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:50 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Again, by way of KCBS: Queen of the Valley Hospital is reporting having treated 87 people injured in this morning’s earthquake. Three of those injuries are reportedly critical — a child hit by falling masonry and two adults with undescribed injuries. The rest of the injuries have been minor, including lacerations caused by flying glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:10 a.m.:\u003c/strong> By way of an interview on KCBS: David Oppenheimer of U.S. Geological Survey is saying that this morning’s earthquake occurred on the West Napa Fault, and the agency has named the event the South Napa Earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, reports of damage continue to come in from downtown Napa. In the area that suffered the most severe damage, building facades have collapsed and chunks of buildings continue to fall in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle reports: “Napa Fire Capt. Steve Becker said there were “numerous” injuries reported across Napa, but details were not immediately available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 a.m.:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2575107-181/60-quake-rocks-northern-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An account by way of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat \u003c/a>of one major fire in Napa:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fire ripped through more than 10 units at Napa Valley Mobile Home Park, off Orchard Avenue. Four homes in the complex were a total loss, with up to eight additional units suffering minor to moderate damage, Napa Fire Capt. Steve Becker. No injuries were reported, but dozens of residents were evacuated to the complex’s clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage at the mobile home park appeared to be the worst in the Napa area, Becker said. The cause was under investigation, but appeared to be linked to gas line ruptures, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Andre Van Derheyden said he and his wife were jolted awake by the quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It blew us out of bed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the couple were able to gather their dog and get outside, the mobile home next door was on fire, he said. The resident, a woman, was able to escape, but her home was a total loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank heaven we are fine, but I feel so bad for my neighbor,” said Van Derheyden.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:50 a.m.: \u003c/strong>To summarize:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A 6.0-magnitude earthquake epicentered at the southern edge of Napa struck at 3:20 a.m. The 6.0 quake is the strongest to strike the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta quake of Oct. 17, 1989.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The U.S. Geological Survey link to seismic details on the quake: \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa-North Bay Earthquake\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Injuries have been reported in Napa, but there are no authoritative reports yet as to the number or severity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Damage is reported in the city of Napa ranging from the collapse of commercial building facades in downtown Napa to extensive exterior and interior damage of single-story homes in the surrounding area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Witnesses are reporting two major fires at the northern end of Napa, one possibly in a mobile home park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E reports thousands of homes are without power in Napa and Sonoma counties and Vallejo in Solano County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The California Highway Patrol and Caltrans are assessing damage to roads in the North Bay. Numerous pictures of buckled roads have appeared on Twitter. A major interchange at the Vallejo end of Highway 37 has been closed because of roadway damage, though Highway 37 remains open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncedc.org/recenteqs/QuakeAddons/NC72282711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geologists say\u003c/a> the chance of a magnitude 5 aftershock in the next seven days is 54 percent. The chances of a quake larger than the main shock in the next week is 5 to 10 percent. Two small aftershocks have been recorded so far: a 2.5-magnitude shake at 5:01 a.m. and a 3.6 shake at 5:47 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:05 a.m.: \u003c/strong>KQED’s Craig Miller checks in from the Mare Island Bridge on Highway 37:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I talked to a guy from Caltrans who says he is the bridge supervisor. He said he wasn’t aware of any bridge closure, though he said there was damage to Sonoma Boulevard [nearby in the city of Vallejo] where pavement had buckled. There are emergency vehicles on the bridge, but I can also see traffic moving across it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KCBS is carrying a witness account from Rob Downey, a Napa business owner, who reports severe damage to several historic buildings in downtown. He said damage seemed to be concentrated near in a quadrant bounded by Main, Second, Third and Brown streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:55 a.m. \u003c/strong>More details from KQED’s Craig Miller in Vallejo: He’s been at the scene of a single commercial block of Tennessee Street near intersection of Broadway where there’s significant damage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There are at least seven storefronts, including a Chase Bank, with windows blown out. In some cases, glass had blown out into the middle of the street. This was a block with about seven different businesses, including a music story, a bridal store and a jewelry store. You can see that part of the ceiling or roof is coming down in the music store. It’s really kind of bizarre — here’s one block in Vallejo with all this damage, and then when you look across the street everything is fine.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Craig’s on his way to check on the situation at the Mare Island Bridge in Highway 37, which has been reported closed because of possible quake damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:35 a.m.:\u003c/strong> From all the reports we’ve heard over the last hour-plus, it’s apparent that the worst of the damage from this morning’s quake is focused in the city of Napa and surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unconfirmed reports — unconfirmed — relayed by KCBS say there’s been some road and possible bridge damage on Highway 12 in Napa and Highway 37 in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KCBS reporter Curtis Kim went on the air with a report that the California Highway Patrol was closing one of the Highway 37 bridges in Vallejo. We’re not sure from the report which bridge it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:25 a.m.:\u003c/strong> KQED’s Craig Miller is touring the streets of Vallejo and says there are signs of emergency response in the areas he’s seen — damage to some building and sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From KQED’s Scott Shafer: \u003c/em>Cheri Hansen of the Napa County Sheriff’s office says: “Everything’s upside down here. Things have flown out of the cabinets. My computer flew off the desk. We have power because we have a generator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:08 a.m.:\u003c/strong> KQED reporter Mina Kim lives in Napa, near the epicenter of this morning’s earthquake. She said she experienced violent shaking. In her words, “Everything came down” from the walls. “Our refrigerator moved across the kitchen. All the shelves came down.” She said she and her husband turned off their gas and are assessing the damage. She also reported a fire is visible in the distance, though she’s not sure what’s burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Smoot, a KCBS editor, came on the air to report a major power outage in large parts of the Sonoma Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By way of KQED’s Scott Shafer, who just got off the phone with the U.S. Geological Survey, here are a few more details on where and when the quake struck from Frank Baldwin, a USGS geophysicist in Golden, Colorado:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was felt over a wide area. It’s a shallow quake and we haven’t heard any reports of damage, although it has the potential for damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s about 6 miles deep and usually when you have a shallow quake it generates more surface waves, which are felt more predominantly throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fault line has not been determined yet, but we’ll be looking at that over the next hours or days by the Northern California seismic network.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 3:45 a.m.:\u003c/strong> The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded an earthquake that rolled through the Bay Area at 3:20 a.m. and 44 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary\">USGS data shows\u003c/a> the quake was a 6.0 quake that struck between Napa and the community of American Canyon. That’s the approximate location of the Rogers Creek Fault in the North Bay. The USGS reported the depth of the epicenter as 10.8 kilometers, relatively shallow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was an unusually long earthquake compared with most recent shakes in the Bay Area, lasting at least 10 seconds, with many callers to KCBS in the immediate aftermath saying they felt movement for as long as 20 seconds. In Berkeley, where this account is being written, the quake was a continuous side-to-side shaking as opposed to a strong, abrupt shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S.G.S. “Did You Feel It” page showed the quake was felt across the Bay Area from Sonoma through Santa Cruz County. So far, we have no reports of damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/08/20140825science.mp3\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nThe \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/quake-rolls-through-bay-area/\">6.0-magnitude earthquake\u003c/a> that shook Napa and surrounding communities on Sunday was the largest to hit the Bay Area in 25 years. More than 100 people were treated for injuries at Queen of the Valley Hospital, streets buckled and wine bottles flew from store shelves. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/454081604-640x431-e1408937362954.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/454081604-640x431-e1408937362954.jpg\" alt=\"A passerby stops to take a picture of damage to the Napa post office. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20983\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passerby stops to take a picture of damage to the Napa post office. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The USGS has issued an advisory that another strong temblor could happen in the area of the South Napa Earthquake in the next few days, but the chances of that are diminishing quickly. Meanwhile, scientists are still trying to find out more about the fault where Sunday’s earthquake occurred. They are focusing on the small West Napa Fault. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED Senior Science Editor spoke with Brad Aagaard, geophysicist with USGS based in Menlo Park. He explained what experts know so far.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Aagaard: The West Napa Fault is a fault that is mapped primarily directly west of the city of Napa, along the edge of the foothills. And as you go further south into the region of the magnitude 6.0 earthquake of Sunday morning, it’s expected at the surface to become much less. We don’t yet know whether this earthquake occurred on the West Napa Fault or just in its vicinity on a smaller structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Kissack: So you’re not even sure you know what fault line this is on yet?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you know what other faults it could be connected to yet, or do you need to know what fault line it is first?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is the Franklin Fault which is mapped in this vicinity, but this also could be on an un-mapped fault that is a smaller structure that is yet to be recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there other dormant, little-known faults in the area and does this quake change the way you’re looking at these less known faults?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the San Francisco Bay Area we are in the middle of the San Andreas Fault system. So even the Hayward Rogers Creek Fault on the east side of the bay is really considered part of the San Andreas Fault System, and there are a lot of smaller structures that link these faults together. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can make magnitude-6.0 earthquakes on any of these smaller structures but we would not expect a magnitude-7.0 earthquake on these smaller structures. We would expect those on our primary faults such as the San Andreas Fault and the Hayward Rogers Creek Fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What kind of quake was this? Can you tell me more about the mechanics of it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the Bay Area most of our faults are strike-slip faults, where one side of the fault moves laterally relative to the other side, and this is a result of our plate boundary here along the San Andreas Fault System with the Pacific plate moving to the North relative to the North American plate. With that plate motion being accommodated with one plate sliding past another that’s why most faults are accommodating that lateral motion. [contextly_sidebar id=”LdoY9ftd3tEmjEqctgGGaaV35p3SP5aC”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s magnitude-6.0 earthquake accommodated this side swept motion and even the alignment of the fault is very consistent with the orientation of the plate boundary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The USGS characterized this as a violent shaking quake but reports from near the epicenter really varied. Some people in American Canyon described only a moderate shaking. Why would there be such disparities?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The level of shaking is really controlled by the local ground conditions and precisely where you are relative to where the earthquake is. Locations closer to sediments — central parts of the river valleys — where the material is softer, so it tends to amplify the shaking. If you’re out in the hills, especially if you’re on hard bedrock, you tend to have more rigid material underneath you so that’s going to cause a different, lower amplitude of shaking. Also in this particular earthquake, because it was a strike-slip the energy tends to be focused along the fault. So if you’re even just a few miles perpendicular to the fault you can have very different shaking than you are if you’re aligned with the fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 625px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/quakecomparison.jpg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"625\" height=\"528\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20995\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This is the largest quake to hit the Bay Area in 25 years, how much stronger was the Loma Prieta quake and what were the similarities and differences between these two?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Loma Prieta earthquake was a magnitude-6.9 event and even though it occurred down in the Santa Cruz mountains, closer to Santa Cruz, it did cause damage in San Francisco and Oakland and it was the Oakland area where most of the loss of life was so that sort of gives you the difference in scale between a magnitude 6.9, which releases 30 times more energy than a magnitude-6.0 earthquake. We’re seeing most of the damage of this magnitude-6.0 earthquake concentrated within about 10 kilometers or six miles of where the earthquake occurred, and this is sort of consistent with a smaller size event compared to the size event of the Loma Prieta size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There is an early warning system being piloted in California. How did it measure up in this quake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/08/24/uc-berkeley-early-warning-system-predicted-south-napa-earthquake/\">early warning system worked\u003c/a> in this case. The prototype would have provided ten seconds of warning in the San Francisco area and that few seconds of warning is very important for people to be able to take action such as do drop, cover and hold on before the strong shaking hits them. If you’re closer to the earthquake you have less warning and so it’s a reminder that people need to be prepared to immediately take action, do a drop cover and hold on when they feel an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So even the Hayward Rogers Creek Fault on the east side of the bay is really considered part of the San Andreas Fault System, and there are a lot of smaller structures that link these faults together. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can make magnitude-6.0 earthquakes on any of these smaller structures but we would not expect a magnitude-7.0 earthquake on these smaller structures. We would expect those on our primary faults such as the San Andreas Fault and the Hayward Rogers Creek Fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What kind of quake was this? Can you tell me more about the mechanics of it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the Bay Area most of our faults are strike-slip faults, where one side of the fault moves laterally relative to the other side, and this is a result of our plate boundary here along the San Andreas Fault System with the Pacific plate moving to the North relative to the North American plate. 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