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Earthquake Recap: Five Quakes Bounce Through Santa Clara County
A handful of relatively small earthquakes hit the county from July 9 through 12.
Santa Clara County saw a number of earthquakes over the last week, though none sent the Richter scale spiking.
The closest quake to Gilroy was a 1.2 Wednesday nine miles north of Morgan Hill, according to the U.S. Geological Survey website.
This doozy came in at a 1.2, hitting at 2:29 p.m. With a depth of 1.2 miles below the earth's surface, this rumble was the most activity South County would see all week.
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The biggest quake to strike the county went down Tuesday three miles south of Los Altos. This one rang in at a 1.5 and struck at 3:44 p.m. Two days later, a 1.4 trembler struck at 2:02 p.m., again three miles south of the city.
Earlier Thursday morning, a 1.1 hit at 3:34 a.m. seven miles southwest of Los Altos Hills, a residential enclave west of Los Altos.
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Milpitas saw a small shaker pass through Monday. This one registered a 1.2 on the Richter scale, hitting at 4:42 p.m. Residents living five miles northeast of the city proper would have felt this one hit.
Hollister, Gilroy's neighbor to the south, had a trifecta of quakes struck near its borders over the week. The first was a 1.3 Tuesday, bumping through an area of land five miles southwest of the city. This one struck at 7:51 a.m.
It wasn't until two days later that another quake, this time a 1.0 two miles in a northwesterly direction, would strike near the city. This one clocked in at 9:41 a.m.
To round out the week, another 1.0 hit at 6:21 p.m. the evening of Saturday, July 14. Anyone in the vicinity of six miles north of Hollister would have felt this mumble.
