Posted on 06/07/2016 8:52:55 AM PDT by JimSEA
Last summer, a startling article appeared in The New Yorker magazine outlining what could happen to the Pacific Northwest in the event of a large earthquake resulting from a full rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. As recently as 1700, this convergent zone produced an earthquake estimated at magnitude 9. The article attracted a great deal of attention, especially among people who had never heard of the possibility that the heavily populated Pacific Northwest could, in a geologic moment, become “toast” — as someone quoted in the article put it.
The San Francisco Bay Area also suffers from the unfortunate confluence of large populations and active faults. However, the nine counties of the Bay Area are home to dozens of major faults — the San Andreas, the Calaveras, the Concord-Green Valley, the San Gregorio, the Rodgers Creek and the Hayward, chief among them. These very active faults, which produce small quakes (mostly under magnitude 2.5) on a daily basis as well as occasional quake swarms — a swarm in October 2015 produced more than 400 small quakes in two weeks — cut through important infrastructure in every city in the region, potentially affecting more than 7 million people.
Most people have heard of the San Andreas, which they assume will be the source of the next big quake in the Bay Area, thanks in part to Hollywood disaster movies, such as the dreadful “San Andreas,” which perpetuate geologic absurdities. Despite the notoriety of the San Andreas Fault, it is not the greatest seismic threat to the Bay Area. East of San Francisco, across the muddy, green waters of San Francisco Bay, sits a smaller fracture in the crust: the Hayward Fault. One day, the Hayward Fault could produce the greatest natural disaster ever to hit the United States.
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I thought it was the one running under Washington D.C. </s>
When?
I wonder if a Yellowstone Eruption and quake would cause enough shockwaves in the Earth to aggravate the Cascadia and San Francisco quake zones? (like dominos) Or are they too far apart?
Bush’s Fault.
Trump’s Fault.
Well, who’s fault is it? d;^)
It could anytime in the next few years,,, again and again and again
“I wonder if a Yellowstone Eruption and quake would cause enough shockwaves in the Earth to aggravate the Cascadia and San Francisco quake zones?”
If a Yellowstone Eruption happens, Cascadia and San Franscico and the entire world’s earthquake combined would be small potatoes. If Yellowstone erupts, Americans would be pouring into Mexico as refugees.
If the Hayward Fault ruptured and was a 9.9 R scale event, almost no (real) Americans would be killed.
“Fasten you seatbelt, Dorothy, ‘cause Kansas is going ‘bye bye’”
LOL! Let’er rip!
Balconies fault.
5.56mm
ping
Snicker, Snicker, Snicker, Snicker. Gooood. No sweat off my back.
Hyperbole much?
Living near the Hayward fault, I could, and probably should, reply to your post with some rather unchristian language.
Bump
The most dangerous fault in America.
Bush’s Fault.
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