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Shake, rattle & roll

I was in Menlo Park this week for a group meeting and experienced my first earthquake in fifteen years of travelling to California. I guess that's not a bad record. We were at dinner in Sunnyvale when the quake hit - it was interesting watching the restaurant move. It took a few seconds for everyone to realize what was happening and then our foreign visitors were wondering what to do. It passed quickly enough that we didn't have to do anything except wait for it to pass. I was impressed that one of the guys at the table guessed the magnitude of the quake, but that really didn't mean anything to me since I didn't have anything to compare it to. They did say that it was the biggest in the Bay area since the Loma Prieta quake in 1989.

Here are the headlines from the local paper over the next two days:

Apparently, next October is the 140th anniversary of the big quakes on the Hayward Fault - and there's a major quake every 140 years on that fault. We'll have to wait and see...

Posted at 11:21AM Nov 02, 2007 by bs in General  |