Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed four earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 2.7 to 3.7 hit in the East Bay over the course of Thursday.

A series of small earthquakes hit near a Bay Area city on Thursday, with the most recent being a magnitude 3.7, according to the US Geological Survey.

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquakes all struck near Hayward, Calif., just south of Oakland. A minor,