{"id":392286,"date":"2026-07-09T17:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:55:44","slug":"3-5-earthquake-shakes-portion-of-california-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392286\/","title":{"rendered":"3.5 earthquake shakes portion of California Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A minor earthquake shook a portion of the Central Coast on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<p>The 3.5-magnitude quake struck at 7:49 in a remote area of San Benito County, about nine miles northeast of Pinnacles National Park and about 18 miles southwest of Hollister along the San Andreas Fault, according to USGS data.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-5-earthquake.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"3.5 earthquake San Benito County \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Location of a 3.5 earthquake in San Benito County on July 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                U.S. Geological Survey<\/p>\n<p>The data indicated that the quake was felt in areas around Salinas, Monterey and Santa Cruz, and as far north as Morgan Hill.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A minor earthquake shook a portion of the Central Coast on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,2949,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-392286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california","tag-earthquake","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}