On Monday morning a 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook the streets of the San Francisco Bay area along the Hayward Fault.
"A building partially collapsed killing two people and injuring three others," says Jennifer Vu, Public Information officer.
Mike Beamer lives across from the auto shop that collapsed he felt various jolts and motion during the event.
"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," said Beamer. "That’s when the screaming start across the street.”
Not all of the injuries are minor according to Vu, but so far only six have been reported.
"Three of the six people injured were hurt seriously enough to require hospitalization and were transported to Hayward General Hospital," said Vu. "No other serious injuries have been reported in Hayward."
Jenny Low, sister of Abby Low who was one of the casualties, is very heartbroken by the loss of her younger sister and blames the owner of the building.
" I have passed by the auto shop before and if you just look at it in general it always looked like it would fall over and just out of building code," said Low. I will plan to pursue my ideas and possibly sue do to unsafe conditions of the building since my sister was there to get her car fixed and ended up dead."
The epic center of the earthquake was reported as a 6.4 on the Richter scale Was considered very strong according to Penny Gertz, a scientist from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
"People as far south as Los Angeles and as far north as Redding felt the quake," Gertz said.
"A building partially collapsed killing two people and injuring three others," says Jennifer Vu, Public Information officer.
Mike Beamer lives across from the auto shop that collapsed he felt various jolts and motion during the event.
"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," said Beamer. "That’s when the screaming start across the street.”
Not all of the injuries are minor according to Vu, but so far only six have been reported.
"Three of the six people injured were hurt seriously enough to require hospitalization and were transported to Hayward General Hospital," said Vu. "No other serious injuries have been reported in Hayward."
Jenny Low, sister of Abby Low who was one of the casualties, is very heartbroken by the loss of her younger sister and blames the owner of the building.
" I have passed by the auto shop before and if you just look at it in general it always looked like it would fall over and just out of building code," said Low. I will plan to pursue my ideas and possibly sue do to unsafe conditions of the building since my sister was there to get her car fixed and ended up dead."
The epic center of the earthquake was reported as a 6.4 on the Richter scale Was considered very strong according to Penny Gertz, a scientist from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
"People as far south as Los Angeles and as far north as Redding felt the quake," Gertz said.
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