A 4.3-magnitude earthquake was strong enough to rattle nerves in the middle of the night, especially in the heavily populated East Bay where it was centered.
People wait outside the United States Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, where the average wait time for a visa is 13 months. New regulations are likely to extend those wait times.
Bay Area Rapid Transit suffered a systemwide outage for the second time in four months because of a computer problem. Service was fully restored just before noon local time.