4.0-magnitude earthquake hit the San Francisco

Updated: Monday, 05 Mar 2012, 6:55 AM MST
Published: Monday, 05 Mar 2012, 6:50 AM MST
Good morning, San Francisco!
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay area Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
The quake hit at 5.33am local time (1:33pm GMT) eight miles (12.9 kilometers) north of San Francisco at an estimated depth of 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers), the USGS said.
No damage was reported.

 

 

Looks like an earthquake just woke everyone up in the San Francisco bay area.
The United States Geological Survey is reporting that it was a 4.3-magnitude earthquake.
As a side note, it looks like we're getting back to the basics of what Twitter is actually best for: live reporting earthquakes in Silicon Valley.
One Twitter user wrote shortly afterward, "All of San Francisco just woke up, tweeted, and are now going back to bed for an hour. Thanks early morning #earthquake."
Another wrote, "Not even my guitar on the wall moved" during the quake.
The shaking from the San Francisco earthquake was felt within a 60-mile radius, from Santa Rosa in the north to Santa Cruz in the south. The epicenter was a mile from East Richmond Heights, two miles from Richmond, four miles from Berkeley and 13 miles from San Francisco City Hall.

Week since Norway

Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil

"Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil," the prime minister added.

The first funerals Friday for victims of the massacre of 76 people a week ago leap in popularity for the ruling Labor Party that was his main target.

Flags around the nation flew at half mast to mark a day of memorial one week after self-confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik, an anti-Islam zealot, that killed 8 people. He then shot 68 people at a summer camp for youths of the ruling Labor Party.

Bano Rashid, aged 18 and who came to Norway in 1996 with her family fleeing Iraq, was being buried at Nesodden church near Oslo in the first funeral.

Rashid was buried to Muslim and Christian prayers as the nation tried to come to terms with the trauma. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere was expected to be among the mourners.

"We have to stand united and carry their dreams forward," Nesodden mayor Christian Holm said of Rashid and another Nesodden youth, Diderik Aamodt Olsen, who died in the attacks on Utoya island that were worst in Norway since World War II.

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A memorial service also was held by the Labor Party and its youth wing in Oslo Friday, with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg making an address followed by a moment of silence to remember the victims.