Dozens Injured as 6.0 Quake Rocks San Francisco Bay Area

Dozens of people were injured, three of them seriously, when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked wine country north of San Francisco early Sunday, damaging historic buildings, setting several homes on fire and causing power outages around Napa. The Sunday morning temblor was the biggest quake in the region in 25 years, striking at 3:20 a.m. local time (1020 GMT), and centered about 8 kilometers (five miles) northwest of the town of American Canyon, on the northern edge of the Bay, according...

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