Earthquake Story:

Who: victims in San Francisco

What: earthquake killed 2 hurt 6

Where:  McHenry’s Auto supply at 2342 Plum St.

When: 8:12 a.m. Monday Morning

How: building collapsed

Why: it was a “strong one.” 6.4 on Richter scale

Monday morning at 8;12 a.m., an earthquake in San Francisco killed two people and injured six at McHenry’s Auto Supply.

Because of the intensity of the earthquake, a 6.4 magnitude on the Rhicter scale, McHenry’s Auto Supply shop at 2342 Plum Street, collapsed killing two and harming six people. Twenty-one fire fighters quickly came to the scene and stabilized the auto shop, trying to avoid making the collapse even worse then it already was. They also capped a gas line after detecting a gas leak. At the site, twelve policemen and five American Red Cross workers responded to the collapse of the building, with some even arriving within four minutes of the earthquake.

Mike Beamer, a resident who lives in an apartment complex just across from McHenry’s, felt the motion of the earthquake, and said that it lasted about thirty seconds, and stopped after a huge jolt.

“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. That’ when the screaming start across the street.” Beamer said.

The epicenter of the earthquake was under Hayward Hills and had a magnitude of 6.4 on the Rhicter scale.

“It was a strong one, and occurred on the Hayward fault, which runs under the hills.” Said Penny Gertz, a scientist from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo park.

Three of the six people who had been injured in the collapse were hurt rather seriously and were transported to Hayward General Hospital for hospitalization. Thankfully, no other serious injuries had been reported in Hayward besides those three.

The intensity of this earthquake was rather large, people as far as Los Angeles and as far north as Redding felt the quake according to Gertz.