Salinas is about a 105-mile drive southeast from San Francisco, in the Monterey Bay area. Magnitude measures the energy released at the source of the earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey says.

BAY AREA — A 5.6 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter 17 miles southeast of Silver Springs, Nevada was felt around Northern California, according to the U.S. Geological Society's "Did You Feel ...

The largest of the bunch, a 3.7 magnitude earthquake, struck shortly before 2 p.m. just east of Hayward, sending a short but strong shockwave through much of the Bay Area. It followed two other small ...