30 October, 2007
Daaaaaammmnnn!
That was a very long earthquake! I think we shook a good 20-25 seconds! It happened about five or ten minutes ago and USGS still doesn't have much in the way of stats on it other than it was centered down toward San Jose. Check that. Now it's looking like a 5.6 and I can't tell if it was on the Hayward or Calaveras fault. If it holds at 5.6, it still won't beat my record for the largest quake I've been in: That record belongs to the earthquake we had in Portland a few months before I moved down here. That was a 5.7 magnitude. And really? I don't WANT to break that record!
I also notice that there was a small quake just off the coast in the North Bay (that's bang on the San Andreas fault). And there's a few tiny aftershocks to this one.
Simon is sufficiently freaked out and is hiding under the covers. Billie is sticking close to me. And as for me, well my day was so shitty that this is about the best thing that came of it.
UPDATE: It's looking like there's a cluster of aftershocks--or just more smallish quakes--on the Calaveras fault, so I'll go out on a limb and say the main event was on that fault and not the Hayward (which is the one that's closest to where I live). I'm not sure if that makes me feel any better...
Labels: earthquake, eeek
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