California shaken by third earthquake in less than six hours

California’s coast has been shaken by a third earthquake in less than one day.

The Geological Survey (USGS) of the United States discovered an earthquake of 2.7 at 1 p.m. 08:03 A Thursday in the city of Hayward.

Another two earthquakes hit less than six hours earlier off the coast of Petrolia, approx. 250 miles north of the latest.

The USGS says the first shaker hit at 1 p.m. 02:06 one that measures a 3.3 size.

It was quickly followed by another earthquake of 3.4 sizes less than three hours later at. 04:51 et.

The two previous earthquakes were centered about 20 miles apart off the coast.

While the two earthquakes near Petrolia hit a relatively quiet part of northern California, the third earthquake in Hayward hit an area in the state just between major cities such as San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont.

This 2.7 -sizes earthquake occurred just by the appropriate named Hayward Fault Line, which USGS Notes is an active error in the San Francisco Bay region.

The USGS shows that hundreds of people reported that they felt all three seismic events, with more than 100 inhabitants reporting to shake over 2.7.

The Hayward error runs along the foot of the East Bay Hills. The last major earthquake hit October 21, 1868 and measures a 6.8 order of magnitude.

Historical items show that five people were killed and 30 were injured.

Researchers have monitored the error and found that it produces large earthquakes ever 140 years.

“When it’s been more than 144 years since the last major earthquake, the clock is ticking,” said researchers at the University of California, Berkley.

‘It is very likely that the Hayward error blasts and produces a significant earthquake within the next 30 years.’

The two size-3-earthquakes near Petrolia took place near the northern part of the infamous San Andreas error, a large rupture of the Earth’s crust, spanning over 800 miles up and down in California.

The seismic events also appeared right along the border of the Pacific plate – the oceanic tectonic plate that lies under the Pacific.

It is the largest tectonic plate on Earth, and recent studies have suggested that large underwater errors may be to pull it apart.

A study from 2024 in Geophysical research letters Found that the deep underwater defects are the result of enormous forces within the Pacific plate that pulls it west.

The San Andreas Error Line also sits only mile away from the Hayward error.

Experts have warned that California is too late for another massive earthquake along San Andreas.

A potential size 8 -earthquake would destroy the state’s most populated cities, causing approx. 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries and $ 200 billion in damage, according to Estimates from California’s earthquake authority.

Experts are pretty sure that at one point there could be a pretty big earthquake for the next 30 years, ‘to Angie Lux, project researcher for the earthquake’s early warning at Berkeley Seismology Lab, told DailyMail.com in 2024.

As for this latest series of minor earthquakes, seismic activity over 2.5 in size can often be felt and cause minor damage.

There have been no reports of damage due to the earthquakes.

The San Andreas error released another pair of earthquakes on February 10 and rocked San Bernardino.

The USGS discovered a preliminary 3.5 size at. 12:44 one, followed by a 3.0 size approx. four minutes later.

The 3.5 earthquake felt in San Bernardino as well as Ontario, Victorville, Hesperia and Riverside.

Residents of Inglewood, Redondo Beach, Palm Springs, Huntington Beach and North San Diego County reported they also felt them when an X user said, ‘Both felt!’

‘Yup felt one … Another day in California,’ wrote another.

More than 230 people said they felt shaking, the USG’s field report said.

Others said they did not feel the earthquakes at all when California is used to greater shaking.

‘Hell, I’m in San Bernardino – and I needed social media to tell me there was an earthquake,’ said a person at X.

‘No, didn’t feel it. And I’m in that area, ”another said on Facebook.