shaking it up in the east bay
August 15th, 2007 Stephen Lau
hrm. it’s been a shaky past month in the east bay with the various earthquakes we’ve had.
last night we had a 3.2 whose epicenter was 1.7 miles from our house
on Sunday we had a 2.7 whose epicenter was 12.8 miles from our house
and about a month ago we had a 4.2 whose epicenter was a mere 1.5 miles from our house.
i’m starting to wonder if we’re going to have a big one soon.
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Geoff Arnold | August 15th, 2007 at 19:15
If you check out the historical seismicity maps for the area - see, for instance, http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/recent/nc40200362_h.html - there’s nothing particularly out of the ordinary in what you’ve recently experienced. Unsettling, perhaps, but not an obvious precursor.
In fact the steady stream of little events suggest that stress is being dissipated in multiple small temblors rather than one big one.
Of course The Big One is coming. It always is. But c’est la vie.
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