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Urgent: Earthquake shakes San Francisco area

Xinhua, August 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

An earthquake jolted the United States' west coast on Monday morning, and was felt in San Francisco area.

The tremor measured magnitude-4.0, and its epicenter was located 5 km southeast of Berkeley, California, at a depth of 5.4 km, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Endi