"Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - Your Handbook for the San Francisco Bay Region" -- c/d?

There's nothing you can do, don't try to prepare.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/nc40179806.htm

it was only a 1.0

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/

california is bubbling with activity, so is alaska, but the size of the quakes are pretty small

HAYWARD FAULT
Minor quake shakes up East Bay

Sunday, September 25, 2005


Some East Bay residents got a rude awakening when a 3.2-magnitude earthquake rattled the region at 4:25 a.m. Saturday.

The quake along the Hayward Fault had an epicenter 1 mile northeast of Piedmont and 3 miles north-northeast of Oakland, according to a preliminary report by the U.S. Geological Survey.

"It's a minor earthquake on a major fault," said USGS spokeswoman Stephanie Hanna. "Every time something like this happens, it's a wake-up call for people to do everything they can to prepare for a larger earthquake."

While the USGS reported that the quake was felt as far away as Vallejo and Milpitas, no major damage was reported.

I felt it too. It woke everyone on my neighbourhood up. It was under Piedmont.

see?

http://www.literatureview.com/history/hist_covers/MadamsSF.jpg

the other looters, I presume? When prompt people do it, they call it...

Is it? I'm excited. I saw it in the bookstore near Alex's house and I didn't buy it, then the next week it was gone!

He did not come to San Francisco. His mother, Queen Elizabeth, visited the city in 1984.

NICE ONE

How hard was it, Milton?

My mom (and dad, I guess too) are so used to the earthquakes, even now, in Belgium, they sit up straight when a truck drives by.

5.6.

Milpetas.

Shook quite a bit even in SF.

20 seconds long.

How often do you have quakes in SF? It seems in Japan it's quite often. Every time I'm there, there's at least one tremor/quake.

I seem to notice an earthquake about once or twice per year. There are certainly many more than that.

There are a lot of little ones all the time. You can look at

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-37.htm

This one appears to have been centered at Alum Rock, not quite Milpetas.

it's been on the news for the last half hour :/

so i had brought home a bunch of dry ice tonight (i had used some at school to make a bubbling "witches brew" for our seminar) and my fiancee and i were playing with it in the bathroom. first, we filled up the bathtub with fog, put the cat in the bathtub and let her play in the fog. then i dumped a big brick into the toilet, which filled up with smoke. we called it "the cauldron of mystery". then she announced she had to use it so we flushed the remaining chunk of dry ice down.

not 30 seconds later the whole house started rocking back and forth like crazy (we're on the 2nd story) and for a half-second i thought that had gotten stuck in the plumbing and blown up the pipes and the house was collapsing.

I'm in Alum Rock and woke out of a nap probably 10-15 seconds before it started. Am I a cat or dog or something?

Is that Big One still coming, btw? Or was that 90's panic talk?

i was talking to my boy, who lives in oakland, when it happened. the look on his face was priceless. not a big fan of earthquakes myself, which is kinda freaking me out about moving to CA, but i live in wellington, on a major faultline - so i guess i should be used to it.

Is that Big One still coming, btw? Or was that 90's panic talk?

It's still on the way. Much of the fear now is centered on the lower San Andreas - Redlands, Palm Springs, Coachella - which has had a lot of measurable fault stress but little to no quakes at all.

Meanwhile we're continuing with a series of Pretty Big Ones.

Unruffled, I waited it out at the bar, and then finished my martini, thinking, 'Go ahead, kill me, but if you spill one drop of this, so help me God I'll...'

was underground, didn't feel a thing

Biggest quake in this area since Loma Prieta.

It didn't feel particularly strong where I was last night but it did a last for a good while.

Magazines were knocked off shelves, dude!

dude that shit last night lasted SO LONG!!!

after a while we thought we were just too stoned

This makes me miss the bay area

And how freaked out I used to get by these things.

Earthquakes are exciting, but I have a tough time getting all freaked. I suppose when the big one comes and I am buried in my house's rubble I will rethink my position.

it sucks when earthquake comes when you're on the crapper. this happened to me when i was a kid. Northridge i think.

it sucks when earthquake comes when you're on the crapper.

That's where you're safest!

Is that Big One still coming, btw? Or was that 90's panic talk?

It's still on the way.

And it's scheduled for NEXT YEAR. (Historically, there's a Big Ones on the average of once every 140 years. It's been 139 since the last certifiable BO -- Loma Prieta didn't count.)

It didn't feel particularly strong where I was last night but it did a last for a good while.

I was watching Bones, and the local newscast kept breaking in at the worst time. By the time they revealed the killer, I was all, "Who?" At least it was Julie Haener interrupting me. ♥

note to self: safest place to be in an earthquake = basement of Cafe Du Nord

The 1906 one wasn't a big one?

And it's scheduled for NEXT YEAR. (Historically, there's a Big Ones on the average of once every 140 years. It's been 139 since the last certifiable BO -- Loma Prieta didn't count.)

It's been a 150 years since the Ft. Tejon quake.

yeah I dunno about that chronology

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Historically, there's a Big Ones on the average of once every 140 years.

Give-or-take 30 years. Kinda makes it a bit less headliney, eh?

Funny how statistics works like that.

And it's been 300 years since a Big One on the southern section of the fault

remember duck and cover drill in school?

It might even be give-or-take 60 years, if I'm recalling the variance incorrectly.

Be there when it happens!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1405/810684949_51db511d54.jpg

Only if Superman pulls me out of the car that's fallen into the earth.

Unruffled, I waited it out at the bar, and then finished my martini, thinking, 'Go ahead, kill me, but if you spill one drop of this, so help me God I'll...'

This is prose of a high order. Hemingway-esque.

My bad, the 140 years figure refers to the Hayward fault:

The Hayward Fault, which runs about 60 miles through the East Bay from San Pablo Bay to Warm Springs in Fremont, has been called a tectonic time bomb. Big quakes occur there about every 140 years. The last big one, believed to be about a 7 in magnitude, was in 1868 - 139 years ago.

If we're having a tectonic plate crossing wang contest, I not only have crossed the west end of the North American tectonic plate several times, but I've crossed the EAST end of the North American tectonic plate as well -- in Iceland!

Anyway, the scariest earthquake I ever felt was the Nisqually Quake here in Washington state... just two weeks after I moved to Seattle.

7.something, no fatalities. Just pray that if you get a big-ass earthquake, that it is not a shallow one. Had the Nisqually quake been shallow, I would have easily died. No joke.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Sfearthquake3b.jpg/800px-Sfearthquake3b.jpg

I want to go to SF now, pls

I've always felt safer in earthquake country than in tornado country.

I just like the picture.