Posted on 10/27/2015 4:26:15 PM PDT by SaveFerris
San Ramon, California, appears to have broken a new earthquake record over the last two weeks: A total of 408 small quakes have shaken the East Bay city, almost four times the record set in 2003 in half the amount of time.
"I've not felt so many tremors in decades," Mark Stone said outside a San Ramon Starbucks on Tuesday morning. "My dog, Gimmel, she's the first one to know a couple of seconds before."
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that as of Oct. 13, the Northern California Seismic Network had detected 408 earthquakes – at least a dozen since 10 p.m. on Monday, with other quakes spilling into the early hours of Tuesday. Most quakes have clocked in with magnitudes ranging from 2.0 to 3.0. San Ramon is about 45 miles east of San Francisco.
In an Oct. 14 interview, Senior U.S. Geological Survey research geologist David Schwartz said the swarm is not all that unusual, noting that San Ramon Valley is at the "center of earthquake swarm activity" in the Bay Area. He recalled a 2003 swarm of 120 earthquakes over 31 days in San Ramon, with the largest clocking in at a magnitude of 4.2.
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The Bay Area has been a cluster for decades.
Why aren’t they referring to the Richter scale when they talk about these quakes?
The last big earthquake I felt was when I was a teenager and we lived in San Ramon. That was in the 1970s, and most of the time since, I have not lived in CA.
Why would only San Ramon be experiencing the quakes, and not neighboring Danville or Dublin? Or is it that San Ramon is the epicenter?
It’s global climate, or sumptin’
These days, I just sneer and chuckle when things are blamed on Poppy’s spoiled brats.
I remember the swarm in 2003, my cats were going nuts.
A new NBC poll indicates it’s because Donald Trump has been verbally-attacking Jeb Bush.
Also, another new NBC poll indicates unemployment is 0.02%, the highest ever and that Obama’s approval rating is at 99.9%.
s/b
“the highest-ever rate of employment, and the lowest-ever rate of unemployment”.
Me, I always trust new NBC polls!
Could be Mount Diablo waking up.
San Ramon is the epicenter. I was living in LaFayette in 2003 and I felt the quake swarm coming from San Ramon.
That would be something.
That would be something.
That would be something.
Michael Savage said today the sky has been looking like it did before the ‘89 quake.
Some claim that Rainbow Clouds appear as an omen, but they’re a natural occurrence that can occur lots of other times.
That was the Weather Channel the other day.
There has been a similar quake swarm going on for the last year and a half southwest of Lakeview Oregon. Both areas have a history of hydrothermal activity. Maybe it’s a nice gold mine being formed.
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