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Hayward, the less famous fault and neighbor of the one of San Andres that caused an earthquake of 4.4 in California


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This Thursday at dawn an earthquake struck the area of Berkeley, Oakland and even San Francisco but did not cause damage. The tremor originated in the Hayward Fault, of enormous destructive potential and which experts call "tectonic time bomb".

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A sign of prevention in case of an earthquake off the coast of California.

An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale shook the Berkeley, Calif., Area on Thursday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake shook several buildings in the densely po[CENSORED]ted area of San Francisco Bay, but caused no damage, the Emergency Services Office of the state government said.

The earthquake struck at 2:39 am local time (5:39 am Eastern Time), with an epicenter near Berkeley, north of Oakland. Several inhabitants of the area told local media that the quake interrupted their sleep. Even residents of the opposite side of the bay, in the city of San Francisco, felt the tremor.

But beyond the earthquake on Thursday, there are those who were disturbed not by the magnitude of it, which was not too much, but by its origin: the Hayward fault, which affects the Bay Area of San Francisco and is rated by the experts as a "tectonic time bomb".

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