Did you feel it? Quake wakes up Bay Area

The U.S. Geological Survey says a 3.7 preliminary magnitude earthquake rattled the small city of Piedmont in Northern California.|

PIEDMONT — The U.S. Geological Survey says a 3.7 preliminary magnitude earthquake rattled the small city of Piedmont in Northern California.

The USGS says the temblor happened Wednesday at 4:42 a.m. PST.

The impacts of the earthquake were not immediately known. Earthquakes with a magnitude between 2.5 and 3 are the smallest that can be felt by people.

Piedmont is a city of roughly 10,000 people next to Oakland.

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