On Monday, the earthquake caused a building housing Mc Henry's Auto Supply to partially collapse.
The earthquake happened at 8:12 a.m. PDT time, hitting all over in San Francisco, with the Hayward area receiving the most damage. The collapse happened at 2342 Plum St, killing 2 people and injuring 6 others. Some people were also trapped inside the rubble and remains of the building. There were an estimated 18 people in the building at the time of the earthquake.
"The names of the dead are being withheld pending notifications of families," Hayward public information officer Jennifer Vu from the Hayward Fire department said.
3 of the 6 injured were hurt seriously enough and had to be hospitalized.
"Those 3 people were quickly transferred to Hayward General Hospital," Vu added.
Hayward firefighters, alerted from 54 different 911 calls, had to use ropes quickly to stabilize the shop, allowing the injured and others to get out safely.
"Twenty-one fire personnel, 12 police and five American Red Cross workers responded to the building collapse, with some of them arriving within four minutes of the quake," Vu said.
The earthquake was definitely a scary and destructive one, putting many lives in danger as well as doing considerable damage to the city in general..
"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’s when the screaming started across the street," Hayward resident Mike Beamer said.
The earthquake was measured as a 6.4 on the Richter scale, reaching all the way from Los Angeles to Redding.
"The epicenter of the quake was on the Hayward fault, just under the Hayward hills," said Penny Gertz, a scientist from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
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