BREAKING: If you're in the East Bay, that rattling that woke you up in the middle of the night was indeed an earthquake. A temblor with a prelim magnitude of 3.6 struck near El Cerrito at 3:39 a.m. this morning. See the latest local quake activity here:
, we look at how the earthquake forever changed the Bay Area and what’s being done to prepare for the next big one.
"We live in earthquake country on the ring of fire -- a red zone of seismic activity that circles the Pacific Ocean. From time to time, with little or no warning, the earth beneath our feet rumbles and shudders -- and sometimes shatters our world."If you were in the Bay Area on October 17, 1989, you knew where you were and what you were doing at 5:04 p.m. when the 6.9 quake rocked the region.
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