{"id":432109,"date":"2026-08-13T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432109\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:40:09","slug":"san-francisco-bay-area-rattled-by-magnitude-3-8-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432109\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Bay Area rattled by magnitude-3.8 earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 13 (UPI) &#8212; The San Francisco Bay area was rattled by a magnitude-3.8 earthquake Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>Two aftershocks measuring 3 and 2.8, respectively, immediately followed, <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/?extent=11.09217,-128.32031&amp;extent=58.30949,-61.69922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the USGS added<\/a>. The initial temblor, which was centered in Oakland, struck at 8:30 a.m. local time, with aftershocks hitting at 9:07 a.m.\n<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of major damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The epicenter was near the Oakland Zoo, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/san-leandro-earthquake-magnitude-41-quake-shakes-alameda-county-usgs-says\/19673030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KGO-TV reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo staff conducted safety inspections following the quake, including checks on the gondola system, KGO-TV said.<\/p>\n<p>Bay Area Rapid Transit reported rail service delays immediately after the quake but later said normal service had resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Residents close to the epicenter described feeling the quake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was at my home just in Sheffield village over here. and we felt like a pretty significant rattling. My dog was asleep on the couch, and she actually, like, jumped across the room onto my lap and climbed onto my lap and the easy chair,&#8221; Ania McMahon told KGO-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 13 (UPI) &#8212; The San Francisco Bay area was rattled by a magnitude-3.8 earthquake Thursday morning, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,136,2281,18122],"class_list":["post-432109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s","tag-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432109","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=432109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}