{"id":229487,"date":"2025-10-16T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229487\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:05:06","slug":"3-1-magnitude-earthquake-centered-in-berkeley-jolts-area-thursday-morning-east-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229487\/","title":{"rendered":"3.1 magnitude earthquake centered in Berkeley jolts area Thursday morning \u2013 East Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKELEY \u2014 A 3.1 magnitude earthquake centered in Berkeley jolted the area Thursday morning, official said.<\/p>\n<p>No immediate damage or injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The quake, which could be felt in surrounding cities, hit about 9:23 a.m. and occurred just over five miles below the surface about a mile east of Berkeley, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first significant shaker since a series of quakes registering between 4.3 and 1.0 in magnitude were felt in the same area\u00a0 during the week of Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>The temblor came less than an hour before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/15\/the-earthquake-app-on-your-phone-will-buzz-thursday-morning-heres-why-its-probably-not-an-earthquake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday morning\u2019s scheduled earthquake drill, the Great California Shakeout<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY \u2014 A 3.1 magnitude earthquake centered in Berkeley jolted the area Thursday morning, official said. No immediate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10832,78255,3805,8713,4,450,2356,4887,128230,69156,21005,1915,128229,451,2558,983,3,22178,6207,452,453],"class_list":["post-229487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alameda-county","tag-albany","tag-bay-area","tag-berkeley","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-earthquake","tag-east-bay","tag-emeryville","tag-headlines","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-regional","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}