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Berkeley residents sitting down for dinner Thursday had an unexpected and unnerving guest—a magnitude 3.9 earthquake centered just three miles southeast of town, eight miles directly below Cochrane Avenue in Rockridge. 

Though some anxious residents called the Berkeley Police Department, officers received no reports of injuries or damage from the temblor, which the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park recorded at 6:39 p.m.