. >> reporter: bill lives here in peace san juan batista. >> the sound was amazing. i thought it was a major wind storm at first but then it turned into a rumble and i said, this is an earthquake as the bed started rolling around. >> usgs seismologist say that 30 small quakes hit the area since early wednesday morning. >> we have earthquakes that started down in this section with a 4.5 and then last evening there was a cluster up here. >> reporter: seismologists say they were the result of the san andreas fault creeping miles below the surface and getting stuck. the san andreas fault runs here behind mission san juan batista. the same one from 1989. benny garcia worked here and even while he was checking the seismograph this afternoon, we saw movement but nothing like what he felt last night. >> it hit here hard and the one last night, i felt very hard. >> reporter: size meteorologists say this area is likely destined for small quakes but this is not a sign of something big tore come. >> i don't think any seismologists and says these are precursory. >> reporter: just

" yes we did. >> in san juan batista out kron 4 news. >> why check on wednesdays traffic in walnut creek this is the 680-24 split the headlights' are northbound traffic moving well in both directions. it will be back much more after the break. stocks ending the day at the highest levels more than two years. if the dow finished up 83 points while the nasdaq was higher by 20. if rob black is here now to talk about your monday. now on monday the stock market was down it had been down for a few days europe was the cause them. now were seeing here is not so big it is released today. >> it's a rock sister paper when there's no other news today there is other news including the commodity bradley and taking the market higher but banks got an ice up 3 tgrade. and there extrapolating added to the year 2011. as jim wright goes more often than not in the year. looking opt 15 to 20 percent here. >> should forget about it because just on monday it was down. >> i'm not good at a lot of things that don't have real emotions don't agree and fearful. it sometimes and not good news because it can't sensatio

the hardest hit areas are celinas and san juan batista.he usgs says at least 15 aftershocks have been recorded. most of them small, though, measuring 1.2 or 2.9, but a sizeable one, a 3.4 aftershock did register about 1:00 a.m. but good news, so far no reports of damage, but we did find some people who felt it here in morgan hill with some rattled nerves. >> how did you feel? >> from where we were at it just felt like swaying back and forth. but it felt like it was a strong one. i don't know how strong but it was a little bit strong. >> pretty strong because it rocked the house pretty good. no damage, nothing fell down or anything. it just lasted a little bit and then it was over. >> reporter: now, according to the usgs, more than 2300 people reported back to them saying they felt it. we've gotten quite a bit of feedback on our morning show facebook page. i'd like to share some of that feedback. michelle wright in gilroy, she felt it and writes, quote, it scared the bejeebies out of me. she also asked where to get an earthquake ready kit f

the strongest areas hit, selenas and san juan batista. we should let this serve as a reminder to get earthquake ready. this includes getting a plan together and earthquake kits. have your flashlights ready, portable radios and of course water and food. the usgs recommends having enough water to last at least two weeks and enough food to last several days. reporting live in morgan hill this morning, marla tellez, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much, marla. in fact right now she mentioned this is actually the second quake in less than a week. we want to check in with the usgs this morning. we say good morning to amy vaughn. she's a geophysicist. are you there? >> i am. >> thanks so much. so how deep was this one and was it connected to the one last week that i mentioned previously? >> right now we have a depth of about 5.2 miles. we don't necessarily know whether these were connected to the morgan hill quakes. these quakes can be common in the 4s so we don't really know if they were connected or not. >> because of the size of it, can

it hit about 12:51, six miles south of san juan batista.s followed by several smaller aftershocks. they received hundreds of phone calls from people who said they felt it in san jose as far as the north bay. >>> 8:03. this morning sarah palin has just issued her first response to what she calls a media attack on her. now, the controversy involves tea party rhetoric and a controversial map palin posted online with crosshair targets on it. but some -- some say that t argeted the mass shooting in arizona. we must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. it's time to restore -- >> the former gop vice presidential candidate says that vigorous debates are a cherished tradition. and that journalists should not re-- should not create what she calls blood libel that leads to hatred and violence. >>> president obama and the first lady are frying -- are f lying to tucson to attend a memorial of the victims -- for the victims of the tragedy in tucson. ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> last night hundreds of m ou

it was centered near san juan batista. all of the quakes are centered on the san andreas fault. no injuries or damage reported. >>> high clouds are beginning to stream into the bay area. another storm looks to clip us tomorrow. current conditions mild this evening. 40 degrees in fairfield. on the cooler side there. 51 in san francisco. 50 heyward. 50 in mountain view and san jose. clouds starting to approach. rain to the north. this makes it way into the bay area over night. we start the day with a few showers. by noon scattered showers in the north bay, dipping down south of the golden gate. temperatures cool tomorrow afternoon but into the weekend we will see a nice warming trend. i will have details in a bit. >>> a bay area boy attacked by a pitbull that was on the loose. tonight the boy is recovering, what the boy says happened, the apology from the dog owner and what will happen to the dog. all ahead on kron 4 news. >>> tonight's headlines, 2 feet of snow paralyzed sections of new england a state of emergency has been called for massachusetts where 100,000 people were witho

a magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck at 12:51 this morning six miles south of san juan batista. it bass followed by a series of smaller aftershocks. the u.s. geological survey said there were no report of damages. >>> let's check in with our meteorologist, steve paulson, how is the forecast out there? >> tori, we have some sunshine. finally. people are doing a sundance out there. some of that overcast, though, makes it tough if you are in the overcast. walnut creek still has some clouds but alameda has sunshine. oakland, snipe. you can see one system went through yesterday. we had a lot of low level c loudiness this morning. some of that has burned off. i can show you the next system right there will be in here tonight and tomorrow. that will give us one more hint of light rain and then after that we may not see some rain for a while. so today sun and clouds, a little breezy, east-northeast wind -- it's just too hard to burn off. south bay, peninsula a lot of sun. mostly cloudy tomorrow. light rain in the morning. more rain to the north. but that's a weaker system coming in. aft

the epicenter three miles south of san juan batista.onight it was followed by two smaller aftershocks, very close to the same spot of the original earthquake. >>> new tonight at 11:00, gunfire rings out in hayward. a father is wounded. his own son is in custody. when officers responded to the shooting this afternoon, they found the victim down and the teenage son at a nearby park. key questions for investigators tonight. where did the boy get the gun? and was the shooting deliberate? george is in hayward tonight. do police have answers yet, gorge? >> they're going to find those answers. tonight, all of this is a big mystery. they have the boy in custody. they're talking to him right now. >> the whole neighborhood is shaken. >> reporter: neighbors in hayward are stunned. they wonder how and why a 15-year-old boy could shoot his own father in the head. >> you have words, but you never pull out a gun. it seems just -- it's just normal that's happening now. >> reporter: police say around 4:00 in the afternoon, the boy's mother got into an a

. >> reporter: only a rooster roaming downtown breaks the silence in san juan batista.hree small quakes hit the area this week. >> then i felt the other one last night. that was about 8:00 and i was read ng bed and it again was a good jolt. didn't last as long as the first the night before, but it really rocked the house again. >> reporter: at the old mission, benny garcia checks his size graph daily. >> for me, i just felt the initial hit and then a little bit of shaking, but it was a pretty hard hit. >> reporter: the largest in the cluster of quakes off the san andres fault was 2.5. so, why a cluster now? they say historically, this area's been known for getting lots of small shakers. >> the bad news about this fault is that it has lots of small earthquakes. if you look back at the historic record, we've seen about 20 in this vicinity going back to 1970. >> reporter: the good news, they don't expect anything over a 5. the san andres fault runs here, but it is not this section seismologists most concerned. >> the big hazard stems from the san an draes fault could be pa

. >> seismologist david says the section of the fault near san juan batista where the quakes are it is creeping. >> within that creep, low friction material continually moving slowly, you get small patches that have high friction. anything around them creeps, eventually lotes this small section and pop off an earthquake. >> last night's close quake was more than 30 after shakespeare all the recent seismic activity is likely not a precursor of larger earthquake any time soon. >> creepers are your friend. there are not large part of the fault that is accumulating strain and ultimately breaking into groups earthquakes. the bad news is you get a lot of small or earthquakes. >> coming up on the morning news the latest on oct. mom and a makeover scheduled for her on oakland. first the san mateo bridge. elk and hit it on the head. it feels like a holiday light. maybe because it's when be sunny today over the next several days. maybe people are just plain lucky. we will be right back. , is about to undergo of financial innovation adjourn. she will get a money maker over today on oprah winfrey

six miyazawa said east of san juan batista column y series of small earthquakes including a three-point for authorities in monterey county say there's no reports of damage, injury. >> hotspot in san jose let's get rid back there. >> sporangium, hotspot on our hands pretty early, for a vehicle accident east bound to 37. confirmed fatal accident all lanes are slowing down by the california highway patrol you could see the yellow beginning to build, speeds of 25 mi. an hour. traffic is light, this is in the counter flow direction it's not affecting too many people in the meantime use an alternate route because this will be ongoing for quite some time. another spot a rattling 880 northbound 880, full roadway closure. this is due to some overnight construction moving in the green so it's not producing much in the back up speed still averaging 60 mi. per hour as you make your further north we do have an overturned vehicle on its roof rated hagen berger carey had three lanes are shut down traffic is on the squeaking by. no other problems creek project, westbound 80 looks good no problems in sa

>> down in the san juan area 5 mi. south of batista.m.. >> as far as seismic is that part been quiet? >> this is an area where we often have many smaller earthquakes. it's been a very quiet lately. but this may 2445 there as of 344 aftershock. it is and followed by 17 or disgrace > 92 runs. it's normal to expect this amount of activity afterwards. >> to everyone is concerned where does seismology stand as far as be able to forecast the potential for three scores were >> their current state of the yard is to look at a 30 your probability so we can look at the record and the amount of activity and reno are forecast is the one in five chance that we care and the to date magnitude 617 or larger one in three chance in the next 30 years. >> so 33 percent. thank you, no damage or injuries to report. certainly felt around the bay area even though was centered down further. >> and 40 1:00 a.m. a year after the earthquake in hanley the reconstruction of downtown port-au-prince is just about to start right now more than 800,000 people remain homel