Good Evening, Santa Rosa!

The northern Bay Area got a after-dinner reminder this evening. From the preliminary information, it looks like this was along one of the strike-slip faults parallelling the San Andreas around Santa Rosa. Mercalli intensities across the region seem to be mostly in the III-V range, so this wasn't more than a good rattle for most people, although it would have been probably an exciting ride near the epicenter. This is almost a bookend to this quake, although they are not likely related. With both being somewhat similar in magnitude and relatively soon after each other, but at opposite ends of the region, this should provide an opportunity to improve seismic mapping of the Bay Area.