A magnitude 3.3 earthquake rattled the residents southwest of Gilroy early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Striking around 2:58 a.m., the quake was centered about 2 miles east-southeast of Aromas in Monterey and San Benito counties, near Watsonville, or about 9 miles south-southwest of Gilroy, USGS said in a preliminary report. Its depth was about 7 kilometers.
Within two hours, around 70 people had reported they felt the quake on USGS’s “Did you feel it?” website.
The jolt was the latest in a series of smaller quakes that have rolled through the Gilroy-Hollister region recently, including two minor earthquakes centered near Gilroy last week and a magnitude 3.9 quake that rattled through Morgan Hill the week before that.
