Quake: Yesterday’s 6.0 earthquake injured an unusual number of people and caused widespread power outages, water main and gas leaks, as well as fires. Geologically it was not a major event, but homes were lost, and in Napa as many as 30 were considered uninhabitable. Bottles and barrels of wine crashed to the floor.

Overall damage is estimated as high as $1 billion and California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency.

At least 120 people went to the hospital with minor injuries, but three were listed in critical condition, including a child crushed by a falling fireplace. It was a lot of injuries for a temblor that happened at 3:30 in the morning when most people are in bed, one of the safest places to be.

Lasting 10 to 20 seconds, It was the largest earthquake to hit the Bay Area since the 6.9 Loma Prieta quake of 1989, which took down a portion of the Bay Bridge and heavily damaged San Francisco’s Mission District.

Rap A Tat Tat: Rap Music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was shot several times inside a Sunset Strip nightclub early yesterday morning. Another man and a woman also were wounded and all are expected to recover.

The shooter escaped in the immediate panic inside the crowded club.

It happened at about 1:30 AM inside the club 1OAK during a pre Video Music Awards party for the musician Chris Brown, the guy who beat up singer Rihanna. Witnesses said Suge left the club on his own two feet.

Suge seems to have a magnetic appeal to lead. In 2005 he was shot in the leg during a pre-VMA party hosted by Kanye West (Mr. Kim Kardashian) in Miami. And in 1996 Suge famously was the driver of the car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. Suge was hit by bullet fragments.

Chris Brown, of all people, tweeted, “It’s disappointing that we as a society can’t have fun or enjoy ourselves without any altercations sometimes.”

Islamic State: ISIS fighters have taken the Tabqa air base inside Syria, strengthening their control over an area that spans portions of Syria and Iraq. This gives them control of Raqqa Province and protects their base city of Raqqa.

Business: Burger King is in talks to buy the Canadian coffee and donut chain Tim Hortons. The intent is not to improve the food but to avoid US taxes. The joined companies would be based in Canada. It’s what’s called an “inversion”, reorganizing in a country with a lower tax rate, an increasingly popular and politically controversial corporate tactic.

Freed: American journalist Peter Curtis of Boston was freed by the Syrian branch of al Qaeda after nearly two years in captivity. It’s interesting because this group, the Nusra Front, broke away from the crazies of ISIS who recently beheaded the American reporter James Foley. Curtis, 45, was taken near the Syria-Turkey border in October, 2012. The terms of his freedom, if any, have not been released, but the White denies paying ransom.

Ferguson: The funeral for Michael Brown, the black teenager shot by a white police officer is today. Authorities are calling for calm.

The Obit Page: Actor, director, and producer Lord Richard Attenborough, who was described as a pillar of the British film industry and a worldwide star, has died at age 90. Attenborough acted in at least 70 films including, “Guns at Batasi,” “The Great Escape,” “The Flight of the Phoenix,” “The Sand Pebbles,” “Doctor Dolittle,” and “Jurassic Park.”

He directed 11 movies, among them, “Young Winston,” “A Bridge Too Far,” “A Chorus Line,” and “Cry Freedom.”

   Attenborough was obsessed with Mohandas Gandhi and worked 20 years to bring to life the 1982 film “Ghandi.” After mortgaging his life and giving up movie roles to make the picture, Attenborough took home the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture.

Couture: Among those who consider a clean sweatshirt dressing up, the hoodie to have is a heavy cotton hooded sweatshirt from the startup American Giant. They can’t keep it in stock and its factories are sewing around the clock. Its thick cotton is considered luxurious and Slate magazine declared it “the greatest hoodie ever made.” For Facebook’s hoodie-wearing boss Mark Zuckerberg, this would be the equivalent of a tuxedo.

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