A minor, 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The temblor happened at 7:46 p.m. Pacific time about 3 miles northwest of Dublin, Calif., data from the agency shows.

U.S.G.S. data earlier reported that the magnitude was 4.

As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map.

Aftershocks in the region

An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one in the same general area. Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault that slipped at the time of the initial earthquake.

Aftershocks can occur days, weeks or even years after the first earthquake. These events can be of equal or larger magnitude to the initial earthquake, and they can continue to affect already damaged locations.

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UBS has pushed back a target to cut its greenhouse emissions to net zero by a decade, blaming its acquisition of crosstown rival Credit Suisse for the delay.

The Swiss bank revised its target to decarbonise its own operations from 2025 to 2035, according to a disclosure in its latest sustainability report published on Monday.

UBS said the delay reflected its “enlarged corporate real estate portfolio” following the state-orchestrated takeover of Credit Suisse in 2023. The bank previously said it would take a $400mn hit from real estate costs tied to its acquisition of its defunct rival.

The move comes after HSBC also pushed back its timeline to decarbonise its own operations last month, delaying its own target by 20 years to 2050.

Banks and other large companies have been reassessing their commitment to climate goals following Donald Trump’s election as US president in November.

Several Wall Street lenders, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, have quit the world’s largest climate alliance for banks in recent months.

UBS remains a member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, whose members must commit to setting goals that align with a target to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

However, members of the group are set to vote in the coming weeks on whether to ditch the pledge and instead align with warming of up to 2C.

UBS said in its latest sustainability report that its target for cutting emissions from mortgage lending to Swiss residential and commercial real estate was based on a global scenario in which the long-term average temperature could rise up to 2C from pre-industrial levels.

Sergio Ermotti, UBS’s chief executive, had previously said the Swiss lender was weighing up whether to follow US peers and leave the NZBA.

“It’s not credible to think that you can do it at the same pace and the same extent in every single country and region in the world,” Ermotti said at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.

In its latest sustainability report, UBS removed a section on the “environmental, social and governance objectives in the compensation process” that appeared in the report in previous years. The bank also said there was “no direct link between senior management compensation and specific climate goals”.

However, executives still have an “environmental and sustainability” objective as part of their non-financial performance assessment, which includes “supporting clients’ activities related to the environment and sustainability”.

The bank said the delay to its net zero target also reflected the “latest regulatory guidance”.

UBS is in the middle of a three-year integration of Credit Suisse, which involves migrating clients and integrating IT systems, a process that the bank expects will be completed in 2026.

UBS declined to comment.

Burn zones from the most catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles history have yet to be fully cleaned up, and thousands of Angelenos remain displaced. But on Sunday, people turned out in droves along the 26.2 mile route of the Los Angeles Marathon, to cheer on more than 21,000 runners who took part. It marked a reaffirmation of vitality in a community that endured disaster just a few months ago.

Among those who finished the race was 15-year-old fire evacuee Abel Rivera, whose home in Altadena burned down in January. Rivera is on his high school running team, and competed in the LA Marathon for the first time last year. For both Rivera and the Los Angeles community, the event was a show of resilience in the aftermath of tragedy.

‘Fifteen years of my life is basically gone’

Rivera lost almost everything when the Eaton fire leveled his home on January 7th.

“I lost a house and not really the way I wanted to. I didn’t want to leave it behind that way,” Rivera tells NPR.

NPR listeners may remember Rivera from a piece on the radio in mid-January, just days after the fires tore through LA.

“Fifteen years of my life is basically gone,” he said at the time. “Everything that I’ve accomplished, every single medal I have, every single collection – everything I had is gone.”

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Everything, including his prized medal for finishing last year’s marathon, and his running shoes. When listeners learned this detail, some reached out to offer him their own 2024 medals. The McCourt Foundation, which puts on the marathon, provided a replacement upon learning of Rivera’s story.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Rivera relied on running as a way to keep calm and centered. Except for a month-long pause due to concerns about air quality, he and more than a dozen other teammates from Pasadena’s Blair High School continued training and participating in shorter road races to prepare for Sunday’s big event.

Rivera expected the run – starting from LA’s Dodger Stadium, and winding through downtown, past City Hall, Hollywood landmarks, and down Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive – to be painful.

“I think for the first 10 miles, I’ll probably be alright, then mile 11-12 I’ll probably be struggling. I’d say 20-24 I’ll probably be hurting a lot,” Rivera said shortly before the race.

But unlike the emotional pain he’s endured as a result of the fires – this is a kind of pain he gets to choose.

‘Doing it for our city’

Rivera isn’t the only student from his running team who was personally affected by the blazes earlier this year. Two other students from Blair High School running club also lost their homes, according to their teacher and coach Eric Glenn, and half the team had to be evacuated from their homes for weeks. Their school district, Pasadena Unified, closed its campuses – also for weeks – since several schools in the district burned.

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Glenn said it was rewarding to hit the streets of Los Angeles as a team: “It just feels like we’re doing it for our city, you know?”

Rivera and his teammates started the marathon just past seven in the morning. He ran side-by-side with his mother, Lupe Melchor, for the first half. And in the early afternoon on Sunday, after about six hours of running, Rivera crossed the finish line to earn his second LA Marathon finisher medal in a row.

“It feels like a milestone,” he said at the finish line. “And running the marathon is nostalgic. It reminds me of times before I had the fire.”

His mom finished about 50 minutes later.

“We didn’t finish together, but we did it,” she said, after giving her son a hug and walking through the finisher’s area arm-in-arm with him.

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Every runner on Blair High School’s marathon team finished, including Coach Glenn. In all, about 3,000 Los Angeles area middle and high school students ran the LA Marathon, as part of a non-profit program called Students Run LA.

“They just did a hard thing while going through a hard thing. And it’s really a testament to their resilience and it’s super inspirational,” Glenn said.

Cleanup and rebuilding is only getting started in Los Angeles. Rivera and his family are still without a permanent home. But they aren’t without hope.

“I feel really good about myself, that no matter what, I can always push through,” Rivera said.

It’s a reminder of resilience, and the capacity to keep going, even when it really hurts.