Living with California's Zipper, the San Andreas Fault, for half a century tends to give perspective. If healthy respect is the most I can generate from living in one of the most seismically active regions of the planet, what hope does a group of rag-tag religious fanatics hiding in caves have to scare me?The news predicting a major earthquake in Southern California was old news for me. I have known about the blockage in the fault at what is known as the "Big Bend" since I was a child. When it slips, and it will, the Pacific tectonic plate will shift 30 feet northward and 24 million people will experience one hell of a shaking.
Earthquakes, to me, are as common as snowfalls in Buffalo. This map is too large and detailed to reproduce on Blogger. It marks with a red dot each of the 140,000 Southern California earthquakes recorded in a 15 year period (1978-1992). That's right, about The Big One will be about 1000 times more powerful than the Northridge quake. It will make Katrina look like a Mardi Gras parade. As for the worst that Bin Laden can do ... pffft.
tags: california, earthquakes
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Up here near Babylon by the Bay they predict the next "big one" will be on the Hayward fault--perhaps the easiest fault in the world to find. Check any map, and trace the route of I-680 from Hayward up through Berkeley. The fault runs parallel through an area of 2 million people and 4 refineries.
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