A 2.9-magnitude
”
micro earthquake,
”
centered in the hills north of Hollister Wednesday morning
wasn’t even big enough to rattle china.
A 2.9-magnitude “micro earthquake,” centered in the hills north of Hollister Wednesday morning wasn’t even big enough to rattle china.
“We felt it rolling, but no clinking and clattering like in past ones,” said George Baptista, who manages the Mikasa Factory Store at the Gilroy Premium Outlets. Mikasa sells dinnerware, glasses and flatware.
An employee at the nearby Lenox Factory Outlet, which sells similar items, plus figurines and sculptures, said she felt nothing.
The U.S. Geological Survey computer reported the small quake took place at 9:39 a.m., three miles south-southwest of Gilroy.
A second, smaller tremor – 1.4 on the Richter scale – took place from the same epicenter at 10:47 a.m.
On Monday, a 1.5-magnitude microearthquake occurred at 2:02 p.m. near the intersection of state Highway 25 and U.S. 101, three miles south-southeast of Gilroy.
