“...and collapsed part of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.”
That was absolutely awful to see; I’ll never forget it!
Don’t you wish our ONLY trouble these days was Mother Nature shaking out her skirts?
a good article to have posted, but the connection of these two fault lines has been pretty much assumed for decades and was announced as proven several years ago
(Fox news is a bit behind the times on that account)
the Hayward fault line indeed goes under several densely=populated places, like:
University of California campus (particularly the Memorial Colliseum football arena), Freeway 13, the BART mass transit train line, Oakland, Hayward downtown district (which has a number of brick buildings extra susceptible to quake damage), and the Fremont BART station, etc.
ALSO, the Bay Area Emergency Communications Broadcasting Headquarters !~
I’d hate to have anyone connect my faults.
ps: while there would be much damage right along the fault line, most of that region’s earthquake damage tends to be on bay mud or fill dirt
which has been built upon..
such as, in the Loma Prieta (small short) quake,
most of the damage was 50 to 70 miles away from the epicenter (in the mountains south of San Jose). The damage was on fill dirt (Freeway 880 structure collapse, Bay Bridge structure collapse, Marina District in San Fransicko which is built on bay fill, big massive heavy hotel in Burlingame built on fill dirt, etc.
this, too, is built atop filled bay mud
and its already leaning, tipping over, ha!
wait til the next quake?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/06/san-francisco-leaning-millennium-tower-investigation
and a public agency (trying to build a super train station for the proposed new bullet trains that almost nobody wants and absolutely nobody knows how would ever reach San Francisco anyway)
that agency is digging a big hole in the mud right next door to the Leaning Tower, almost certainly undermining its stability further
the agency claims its construction work won’t hurt the Leaning Tower. go figure....
Tower:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/06/san-francisco-leaning-millennium-tower-investigation
As long as Peloser gets caught in it. It is all good ...
when that big one hits, what will Hillary do to save San Fransisco?
Is it still Bush’s fault?