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Major Quake May Strike Bay Area Next Year, Experts Say
National Geographic ^ | December 12, 2007 | Christine Dell'Amore

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 ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; earthquake; sf
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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 7—about the
severity of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake

1 posted on 12/13/2007 1:36:26 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

“The San Francisco Bay Area is ripe for a major earthquake”

This is news?


2 posted on 12/13/2007 1:37:29 PM PST by Slapshot68
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To: Zakeet

Hopefully Pelosi and Feinstein will be in their home districts when it happens.....


3 posted on 12/13/2007 1:37:59 PM PST by Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
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To: Zakeet

I hate “experts”.


4 posted on 12/13/2007 1:39:15 PM PST by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: Zakeet

Talk is cheap.


5 posted on 12/13/2007 1:40:02 PM PST by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: Zakeet

Gomorrah by the Bay - let it fall into the sea!


6 posted on 12/13/2007 1:40:09 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast

good thing they moved the US Navy out


7 posted on 12/13/2007 1:40:24 PM PST by wildcatf4f3 (How stand I then?)
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To: Zakeet
Major Quake May Strike Bay Area Next Year, Experts Say

...or not.

8 posted on 12/13/2007 1:40:50 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast

Doesn’t Boxer live around there too?


9 posted on 12/13/2007 1:41:26 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: Zakeet

.. and the first thing they’ll do is holler for help from the military. F’em.


10 posted on 12/13/2007 1:41:39 PM PST by Lexington Green (Not one dime to Hollywood traitors)
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To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
“Hopefully Pelosi and Feinstein will be in their home districts when it happens.....”

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.

11 posted on 12/13/2007 1:41:54 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Zakeet
True a major quake May strike Bay Area, and maybe San Francisco will turn into a city of Christians only and maybe Nancy Pelosi will start supporting what is best for the United States - my bet is none of these will happen.
12 posted on 12/13/2007 1:42:04 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: Lexington Green

And MONEY !

Federal, private - you name it.

Not all will be lucky in looting.


13 posted on 12/13/2007 1:42:45 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: BunnySlippers
I hate “experts”.

I've noticed a lot of contempt for people that might have some idea of what they're talking about.

14 posted on 12/13/2007 1:43:02 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Zakeet

Hopefully timed for election day 2008.


15 posted on 12/13/2007 1:43:44 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Strategerist

Like who?


16 posted on 12/13/2007 1:43:50 PM PST by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: Zakeet

This author is going to get fired.

He missed the part where it is all Bush’s fault for not accepting KYOTO.


17 posted on 12/13/2007 1:44:47 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: BunnySlippers
Like who?

Posters on pretty much every thread regarding anything about science.

18 posted on 12/13/2007 1:45:14 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Zakeet

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.


19 posted on 12/13/2007 1:45:21 PM PST by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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To: Zakeet

The sooner the better, just kidding.....


20 posted on 12/13/2007 1:45:22 PM PST by yield 2 the right
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