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Posted on 04/29/2026 8:42:06 AM PDT by Libloather
This has scientists quaking in their boots.
Researchers have found that one of the US’s most dangerous fault lines is overdue for an earthquake, potentially threatening millions of people across California, per an alarming study in the journal Seismological Research Letters.
This terrifying tremor could “cause extensive damage to such a dense population zone,” wrote the team from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), in a statement.
Part of the massive San Andreas Fault Line, the Hayward Fault Line extends 74 miles through major Bay Area hubs, including Berkeley, Oakland and Fremont, an area that’s collectively home to around 8 million people.
This fault is of particular concern as it regularly generates magnitude 7 Earthquakes — more powerful than the 1989 Loma Prieta quake that killed 63 people and injured 3,757 in the Bay Area.
If one of these earthquakes were to occur today, it could potentially kill 800 people and injure up to 18,000, per a previous US Geological Survey report called the “HayWired Scenario.”
While the last event to occur was in 1868, scientists have calculated that Hayward ruptures every 95 to 183 years, meaning we’re overdue for a seismic event.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Hayward has a 14.3% chance of a 6.7 magnitude or larger seismic event by 2034 and a 33% chance before 2043, making Hayward one of the most hazardous fault lines in the region.
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It wont.
The way government works now, if your land massively increased in value, I have no doubt they would exercise eminent domain for the purposes of scientific study, ecological protection, and “public safety”
My brother used to live on that fault line. No more.
The fault line runs directly underneath UC Berkeley’s Stadium
Well, as long as it’s only democrats affected then let er rip!
I’m 3 miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake.
Plenty of distance </s>
“Part of the massive San Andreas Fault Line, the Hayward Fault Line extends 74 miles through major Bay Area hubs, including Berkeley, Oakland and Fremont, an area that’s collectively home to around 8 million people.” Well, you gotta go you gotta go, God bless ‘em.
That’s gotta be the Hayward Fault-heard it’s much worse. You don’t have to be on either one. LA isn’t much better.
Now what if it struck on election day 2028? Or a tsunami hitting the entire left coast? The only Calif. votes counted would be in the Central Valley and red areas. Would they count?
California faults are pikers compared to the one along the Mississippi River. I remember the scare stories that were put out in the early 1990s. They sold a lot of earthquake insurance in Tennessee and Mississippi back then.
Quake still hasn’t happened there.
The Hayward Fault usually slips before the San Andreas.
And yes, it poses a big problem, but there is a bright side to that prospect: The damage may be focused upon Oakland.
Reads like someone wants more funding....
What’s strange is I’m not worried about a building falling on me. I’m more worried about the dangers of too many people freaking out all at once.
How much more proof of Global Warming could anyone ask for?
I’m so scared. I called a contractor to see if they could suspend our home on springs and shock absorbers. They told me I was a nut case and hung up. No one is taking any of this doom and gloom serious. How distressing.
Democrats would just get a tame federal judge to keep the polls open however long needed to get enough democrat votes counted. Or just call a special session of the state legislature to empanel the democrat electors.
That’s not even the potentially worst fault in the US.
If New Madrid goes again, St Louis to Memphis will be in ruins.
“Where can we go,
When there’s no San Francisco?
Better get ready to tie up,
The Boat in Idaho!”
https://genius.com/Shango-rock-group-day-after-day-its-slippin-away-lyrics
The degree of damage is wildly dependent upon the time of year the quake hits. The the hillsides above the East Bay are almost entirely composed of clay. If it is in winter and that clay is saturated, it would turn them into Jell-O. My guess is the death and destruction would then be much worse.
My late teen years were in Lafayette, where the soils are similarly goopy. Did a study on ours in a soils lab while in college. It's why, when it came time to look for raw land to build a house in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the first thing we did was to go to the USGS office in Menlo Park to map out more stable sandstone deposits.
Just jack up the slab and float it on water. That's what they did with a hotel in Japan in 1923. (AI says they floated it on mud, not water).
>> My brother used to live on that fault line. No more.
Whose fault is that? Not his!
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