Posted on 12/13/2007 1:36:24 PM PST by Zakeet
The San Francisco Bay Area is ripe for a major earthquake, and it could strike as early as next year, experts announced yesterday.
The "most dangerous urban fault in America," scientists say, is the Hayward Fault, which runs under densely populated areas in the Bay Area including the city of Oakland.
The past five major earthquakes along the fault have occurred at regular 140-year intervals. The last one, in 1868, was mostly forgotten in the aftermath of the ruinous 1906 quake, which was triggered by the nearby San Andreas Fault.
But the 1868 event has garnered more distinction recently: October 2008 will mark the 140th anniversary of that magnitude 7 quake.
"We don't know when the next big quake [will be], but we do know that the Hayward Fault is ready," Tom Brocher, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), told National Geographic News.
New research also suggests the Hayward is much longer than previously believed, which could portend a disastrous earthquake two to four times bigger than was once thought.
"It's going to be right in Oakland," Brocher said of the quake's likely epicenter. "The shaking is going to be much stronger and much more damaging."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Data based on the last five earthquakes does signal the next quake striking within a few
years -- Several scientists estimate the coming temblor at a magnitude 7about the
severity of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake
“The San Francisco Bay Area is ripe for a major earthquake”
This is news?
Hopefully Pelosi and Feinstein will be in their home districts when it happens.....
I hate “experts”.
Talk is cheap.
Gomorrah by the Bay - let it fall into the sea!
good thing they moved the US Navy out
...or not.
Doesn’t Boxer live around there too?
.. and the first thing they’ll do is holler for help from the military. F’em.
Nah, they’re too good for the little people.
They’ll be living where it’s safer and much more expensive - after all they are LIBERAL ELITES.
And MONEY !
Federal, private - you name it.
Not all will be lucky in looting.
I've noticed a lot of contempt for people that might have some idea of what they're talking about.
Hopefully timed for election day 2008.
Like who?
This author is going to get fired.
He missed the part where it is all Bush’s fault for not accepting KYOTO.
Posters on pretty much every thread regarding anything about science.
Didn’t I read this “news” way back when I was in grade school and first learning about earthquakes? Pretty sure Cali been waiting for the “big one” since the quake of 1906.
The sooner the better, just kidding.....
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