You may have felt the earthquake on the evening of August 23 (the epicenter was in San Leandro). The earthquake was one of four that hit the greater Bay Area last week, and although it was only a 3.6 in magnitude, it still gave a shake that startled some and incited curiosity about when the next big one will hit.
Skyline geology Professor Mel Zucker says last week’s earthquake was just “one of many like that. Dozens every year take place, and it doesn’t indicate that there will be a bigger quake as a result of that one, rather just a reminder we live in earthquake country. We in Northern California live in a place where there is a major fault system with recurring earthquakes because we have both Pacific and North American plates. They actually help people to prepare for larger magnitude earthquakes. It’s real