On Dec. 24, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan's southeastern coastal county of Taitung. That quake also shook buildings in Taipei. Taiwan is prone to earthquakes and is near the junction of two tectonic plates.

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and raising fears across California.

"Over that vast time, the rough edges and bends in the fault have been ground down," first author Eric Lindsey, a geoscientist at the University of New Mexico, said in a statement. "Because it is so smooth and straight, the earthquake rupture could travel very efficiently across a huge distance."

For more than a month, the San Francisco Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the latest in a series of seismic swarms that have rattled windows and raised fe

The aftershocks, which are technically earthquakes, refer to events close in time and space to another larger event or main shock, Ackerley explained. In this case, the initial rupture crossed the Yukon-Alaska border in a remote wilderness area.

The quakes come as California sees the effects of an atmospheric river that has caused flash flooding, rescues, and landslides.

A swarm of at least a dozen earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 3.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.

City officials have called for a hearing investigating Waymo after the company’s self-driving taxis suffered widespread problems during a power outage.

Areas of Perthshire and the western Highlands, southern parts of Wales, and Yorkshire and Lancashire saw the most seismic activity, British Geological Survey data shows.

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