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San Francisco earthquake: Buildings shake and folks ‘jolted’ as tremor felt throughout bay

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The view from the hill in San Francisco hit by an earthquake today (stock image)

An earthquake shook San Francisco. People reported buildings shaking and being roused from their sleep.

The magnitude 3.5 earthquake was “felt in large parts of the bay,” according to Dr. Judith Hubbard of Cornell Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Seismic maps show it occurred 11 miles south of the large northern California city. AccuWeather reported that it hit just after 6 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, or 2 p.m. GMT.

A local resident tweeted that she felt the tremor in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco and was awakened by it.

@jamiedsongs tweeted, “I felt it in SoMa. A jolt and a tremor. I *just* fell asleep!”

Did you feel the earth tremble? Are you affected by the quake? Email webnews@mirror.co.uk

The place of the quake

Journalist Susan Dyer Reynolds tweeted that “the quake felt stronger here in west San Francisco.”

The quake spread across the entire bay

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