Did you feel that earthquake?

[Muse]

Is this the big one? I always wonder.

 

[drum]

nope.

 

[neutralizer]

Aw, crap. I'm home for winter break and I hope nothing fell off my desk.

 

[SlitheryDee]

A whole state full of people on verge of falling into the ocean and people talk trash about New Orleans being built below sea level... (yeah Katrina was bad but just imagine...)

 

[2Xtreme21]

Hmm, musta been a big deal if there are already 2 threads on it.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
A whole state full of people on verge of falling into the ocean and people talk trash about New Orleans being built below sea level... (yeah Katrina was bad but just imagine...)

Where this earthquake occured was either on the Hayward Fault or a minor fault adjacent to it. The Hayward Fault is generally acknowledged as having the potential for releasing the worst earthquake in terms of damage and destruction in the history of the USA. If a 7.3 quake (thought to be the greatest that can be expected on this fault) were to occur centered in the most populous areas (and not terribly deep) it would be apt to be the worst catastrophe in the history of the nation. I live about 2 miles from that fault. :Q

You know, AFAIK all that talk about California falling into the ocean is rubbish. It will take many millions of years for that kind of change. There are islands 30 or so miles north of me that were 30 or so miles south of me some 30 million years ago. In that timespan there have been around 100,000 earthquakes of magnitude similar to that of the great S.F. earthquake of 1906.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
A whole state full of people on verge of falling into the ocean and people talk trash about New Orleans being built below sea level... (yeah Katrina was bad but just imagine...)

Where this earthquake occured was either on the Hayward Fault or a minor fault adjacent to it. The Hayward Fault is generally acknowledged as having the potential for releasing the worst earthquake in terms of damage and destruction in the history of the USA. If a 7.3 quake (thought to be the greatest that can be expected on this fault) were to occur centered in the most populous areas (and not terribly deep) it would be apt to be the worst catastrophe in the history of the nation. I live about 2 miles from that fault. :Q

Yea... wtf with Berkeley being on that fault.

 

[KLin]

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51177042.htm

 

[daveshel]

Yet the news services still have nothing on it. They need ATOT.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: KLin
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51177042.htm

That thing was practically in my back yard. Seriously, it was the worst I remember feeling in years, maybe since Loma Prieta.

 

[FoBoT]

n/m

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Yet the news services still have nothing on it. They need ATOT.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/20/BAG9AN3JPD3.DTL

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i don't see it on usgs

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51177042.htm

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
A whole state full of people on verge of falling into the ocean and people talk trash about New Orleans being built below sea level... (yeah Katrina was bad but just imagine...)

Where this earthquake occured was either on the Hayward Fault or a minor fault adjacent to it. The Hayward Fault is generally acknowledged as having the potential for releasing the worst earthquake in terms of damage and destruction in the history of the USA. If a 7.3 quake (thought to be the greatest that can be expected on this fault) were to occur centered in the most populous areas (and not terribly deep) it would be apt to be the worst catastrophe in the history of the nation. I live about 2 miles from that fault. :Q

Yea... wtf with Berkeley being on that fault.

That fault (Hayward Fault) runs right under Memorial Stadium, where the Cal Bears play football.

 

[daveshel]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: daveshel
Yet the news services still have nothing on it. They need ATOT.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/20/BAG9AN3JPD3.DTL

Guess the blizzard is keeping it from breaking nationally.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
A whole state full of people on verge of falling into the ocean and people talk trash about New Orleans being built below sea level... (yeah Katrina was bad but just imagine...)

Where this earthquake occured was either on the Hayward Fault or a minor fault adjacent to it. The Hayward Fault is generally acknowledged as having the potential for releasing the worst earthquake in terms of damage and destruction in the history of the USA. If a 7.3 quake (thought to be the greatest that can be expected on this fault) were to occur centered in the most populous areas (and not terribly deep) it would be apt to be the worst catastrophe in the history of the nation. I live about 2 miles from that fault. :Q

Yea... wtf with Berkeley being on that fault.

That fault (Hayward Fault) runs right under Memorial Stadium, where the Cal Bears play football.

I know... look at my profile .

 

[uberman]

ATOT News Staff reporting live on the scene. Preliminary reports are sketchy. Automated equipment reports say 3.7 magnitude 2 miles from Berkeley.

Switched on mobile scanning equipment. Now tracking mobile news crews, fire and ambulance and CB radio channels.

Hear news first on ATOT.

 

[her209]

Insert sex joke here.