Bay Area residents were awakened Thursday to a rattling, rolling reminder that they live in earthquake country.
A magnitude 4.6 quake (opens in new tab) centered near Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains struck at 1:41 a.m. It caused no significant damage, but people in San Francisco, Oakland, and towns farther away felt the tumult beneath their beds.
The quake was centered east southeast of Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County, at a depth of about 6.8 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency said it received 30,971 reports from citizen scientists in the region from Santa Rosa to southern Monterey County who felt the shaking…