A 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California Thursday morning, triggering a tsunami warning for parts of the coastline that includes the San Francisco Bay Area.
The National Tsunami Warning Center issued an alert telling people in the affected region to move to higher ground. The warning extends from Florence, Oregon, to Davenport, California.
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The quake struck about 40 miles west of Petrolia, a small unincorporated community in Humboldt County at 10:44 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Bay Area’s rapid transit network (BART) suspended service through the underwater tunnel that connects San Francisco and Oakland as a precaution.
People in the Bay Area reported on social media that there were building evacuations in process. The San Francisco Zoo said it was evacuating guests and securing animals before staff moved to high ground.
This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available.
The image from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows approximately the location of major earthquake in California on December 5, 2024. The image from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows approximately the location of major earthquake in California on December 5, 2024. United States Geological Survey USGS
San Francisco just notched its largest office lease in nearly a decade, marking the latest sign of a post-pandemic comeback for the city’s recovering commercial market.
The City and County of San Francisco inked a 502,000-square-foot lease expansion at 1455 Market Street, bringing the city government’s total presence there to more than 900,000 square feet, the San Francisco Business Times reported. The deal with landlord Hudson Pacific Properties has a 23-year term and represents the largest office lease in the city since 2018 and tops other large leases in recent years, such as OpenAI’s 486,000-square-foot lease in Mission Bay in 2023.
As it stands, the city government already occupies approximately 400,000 square feet in the building across two lease deals signed in 2024 and 2025. With the city’s new agreement, occupancy in the nearly 1.1-million-square-foot building rises to 89 percent. A few years ago, the building was less than half-occupied, according to the Business Times.
The lease deal includes two five-year extension options and a possibility for the city to own the building outright. The city government has the right to purchase the 22-story building until next March; after that, the city will still maintain the right of first offer throughout the rest of its lease.
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With the new lease, several city departments will consolidate into one building, “mov[ing] out of an aging, costly and seismically vulnerable building” into a modern facility, Angela Yip, a spokesperson for the city’s real estate division, told the Business Times. The Municipal Transportation Authority, Human Services Agency and the City Administrator will move into 1455 Market starting in the fall of next year.
In doing so, the government will effectively abandon the 650,000-square-foot city-owned building across the street at 1 South Van Ness Avenue. The city plans to use the Van Ness property, zoned for residential and mixed-use purposes, to “create more housing and catalyze development” in the Mid-Market corridor, Yip said.
Hudson Pacific dolled out $93 million for the 1455 Market Street building in 2010. In 2024, Hudson Pacific bought its joint venture partner’s interest in the building for $43.5 million. At the time, the deal valued the property at about $96.6 million — a roughly 80 percent tumble from its 2015 value of nearly $219.2 million.
— Chris Malone Méndez
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A giant Musk inflatable flew over NYC’s Times Square Thursday; a local nurse and TikTok creator was identified as the victim in a fatal shooting in downtown Oakland; and free Wi-Fi is now available at all of SF’s BART stations ahead of the World Cup.
A gray whale found in San Francisco Bay last week is believed to have been killed in a vessel strike, scientists said Thursday.
The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito told CBS News Bay Area that an adult male whale was found floating off San Francisco’s Pier 80 on the morning of June 4. On June 5, the center’s Cetacean Conservation Biology Team saw the whale carcass floating southeast of Alcatraz.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers towed and secured the 38-foot whale, bringing the carcass to Sand Springs Beach at Angel Island State Park.
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A team of scientists from the center and the California Academy of Sciences performed a necropsy on Sunday. Scientists noticed evidence of blunt force trauma, including hemorrhage behind the skull and a broken vertebra “consistent with blunt force trauma due to a suspected vessel strike.”
Carcass of a whale that was initially found off Pier 80 in San Francisco on June 4, 2026. An autopsy performed at Angel Island State Park determined the whale, a 38-foot adult male, died from a suspected vessel strike.
The whale was in “fair to normal body condition” at this point in the migratory season, the center said. Additional samples were taken for further testing.
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According to the center, this case marks the 13th dead gray whale found in the wider Bay Area so far this year.
The cause of death in four of the incidents have been determined as suspected or probable vessel strikes, including a whale that was found off San Leandro on May 27 and a whale that was found in San Francisco Bay on March 17.
The center said gray whales are currently on their northern migration to their feeding grounds in the Arctic. Several whales frequenting San Francisco Bay are expected to depart in the next two weeks.
According to a population estimate by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, there are about 12,900 North Pacific gray whales, the lowest since the early 1970s.
