Sep. 29—A magnitude 4.2 earthquake centered near the Santa Cruz-Monterey county border woke residents up across the Bay Area early Sunday morning. The earthquake, at 2:47 a.m., occurred along the San Andreas Fault at a depth of 4.2 miles in a rural area along Highway 129 about six miles east of Watsonville and seven miles south of Gilroy. It was the largest earthquake in the greater Bay Area ...

Perry Adebar, a professor of structural and earthquake engineering at the University of British Columbia, says some older buildings in Vancouver are in a frightening state, after the city released a report on the seismic risk in privately owned properties.