Earthquake Story

At 8:12 in the morning in San Francisco Bay, the people in McHenry's Auto Supply. Many were frightened  and stirred that early in the morning.

Sadly, Two people lost their lives.  Six others were seriously injured.

An earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay area Monday morning. The quake struck at 8:12 a.m. PDT

"People as far south as Los Angeles and as far north as Redding felt the quake," Gertz said.

Some people, like Hayward resident Mike Beamer, only felt the jolt and the 30 seconds of rumbling.

“I was eating my breakfast when the room started rolling,” Beamer said. “ I dove under the table just as I heard an explosion outside and a chunk of cement flew my window. That’s when the screaming start[ed] across the street.”

Hayward firefighters went to the auto shop and used ropes to stabilize the building long enough to conduct a search for the gas leak.

"Twenty-one fire personnel, 12 police and five American Red Cross workers responded to the building collapse, with some arriving within four minutes of the quake," Vu said.

Three of the six people injured were hurt seriously enough to require hospitalization and were transported to Hayward General Hospital, according to Vu. She added the no other serious injuries have been reported in Hayward.

“The epicenter of the earthquake, which has a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richer scale, was under Hayward Hills,” U.S. Geological scientist Penny Gertz said. “The quake was a strong one [and] it occurred on the Hayward Fault, which runs under the hill."