San Ramon appears to have broken a new earthquake record over the last two weeks: A total of 408 small quakes have struck the East Bay city, almost four times the amount of quakes set in 2003 in half the time period.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that as of Oct. 13, the Northern California Seismic Network had detected 408 earthquakes – at least a dozen since 10 p.m. on Monday, with other quakes spilling into the wee hours of Tuesday. Most quakes have clocked in with magnitudes ranging from 2.0 to 3.0.