Earthquake Story
An earthquake, that struck at 8:12 a.m rocked the San Fransisco Bay area. A building named McHenry's Auto Supply partially collapsed at 2342 Plum St. This catastrophe killed two people and injured 6 others, according to Jennifer Vu, a public information officer from the Hayward Dept. The resident whose apartment is across the street from McHenry's, Mike Beamer, said he felt a rolling motion that lasted about 30 seconds. He says, "I was eating my breakfast when the room started rolling. 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 creaming start across the street." The center of the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richer scale,was under the Hayward Hills, according to Penny Gertz. Gertz called the earthquake a "Strong one" and said that occurred on the Hayward Fault, which runs under the Hayward Hills. The quake was so severe, 12 police and f...
