On Monday morning at 8:12 a.m., an earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay area. It hit hardest at Hayward Hills, which is right over the "Hayward Fault."
"I was eating my breakfast when the room started rolling," Hayward resident Mike Beamer said. "I dove under the table just as I heard an explosion outside and a chunk of cement flew through my kitchen window. That's when the screaming started across the street."
Across the street, at McHenry's Auto Supply, two people were killed and six were injured (names of the dead or being withheld pending notifications of families). Three of the injured people were bad enough to be hospitalized.
Jennifer Vu, a public information officer from the Hayward Fire Department, said they were hospitalized at Hayward General Hospital. She also reported that no further injuries had been reported.
It was found that Hayward Hills was the epicenter of the earthquake.
"The epicenter of the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale, was under the Hayward Hills," Penny Gertz, a scientist from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, said. According to her, it was a "strong one."
Directly after the earthquake and explosion, twenty-one fire personnel, twelve police, and five American Red Cross workers responded. The firefighters used ropes to stabilize the building before conducting a search and discovering a gas leak. The gas leak was immediately capped.
"People as far south as Los Angeles and as far north as Redding felt the quake," Vu said.
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