Aftershocks have been recorded for both earthquakes. On Dec. 8, Japanese authorities warned an even more powerful earthquake could strike within the next week and called on residents from the northernmost island of Hokkaido down to Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, to be on high alert.

LATEST, Dec. 8, 3:15 p.m. Oakland is the latest Bay Area city to be jolted by an earthquake on Monday. The shake happened at 2:55 p.m. and had a preliminary magnitude of 2.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake also had a depth of 2.85 miles, with an epicenter located north of Montclair.

A series of small earthquakes struck the San Ramon over the span of several hours on Monday in the latest swarm to hit the East Bay community over the past few weeks.

A shake alert went out over the U.S. Geological Survey's early warning system on Dec. 4, warning that a 5.9 earthquake near Carson City in western Nevada could produce heavy shaking in the region. But moments later, the survey announced the alert, which was sent to people as far west as San Francisco, was a false alarm.

In a new study soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, I present evidence for hundreds of these quakes in Antarctica between 2010 and 2023, mostly at the ocean end of the Thwaites Glacier – the so-called Doomsday Glacier that could send sea levels rising rapidly if it were to collapse.

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An earthquake of magnitude seven struck the region around Yakutat, Alaska, the United States Geological Survey said on Saturday. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.21 miles), it added. An earthquake of magnitude 6.36 struck Greece, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Saturday.