did the earth move for you?

[mountain_laurel]

92 earthquakes so far today in california, all of them centered in the same spot, all of them within about the last two hours. one assumes they're all aftershocks of the big 6.0 that opened the series.

the spot just happens to be right where scientists are drilling a hole deep into the San Andreas Fault. add an evil genius and you've got a summer blockbuster on your hands!

oops, make that 95 quakes. er, 96.

and, uh, counting.

(no, i haven't felt any of them. i was driving when the bigger ones hit, and i'm too far away for the tiny aftershocks to register. i bet the cats are in a state, though.)

(in other news, gas went up a nickel a gallon overnight. sigh.)

Comments

[the-steelmare.livejournal.com]

On a positive note, many small earthquakes means there is less likelihood of one real biggie. Little adjustments instead of one big POP.

Now if they drilled about a hundred holes and dropped some explosives down them....

[the-steelmare.livejournal.com]

Forgot to add that Parkfield is about the most seismically active place around so there's probably a kink right there in San Andreas' back. When the energy shifts north, like to the Hayward fault which has been hung up for a long while, we are in big trouble. Until then, Northern California whistles as we walk past the graveyard.

[merde.livejournal.com]

yeah, this is really pretty good news for anyone living near the San Andreas; it probably won't do anything for a while after this rupture, plus the rupture itself will provide lots of scientific data.

i do worry about the Hayward.

[the-steelmare.livejournal.com]

Everybody forgets the Hayward. Runs right through the Cal football stadium. There's a disaster movie to be made right there. Cal-Stanford game with earthquake?
At least most of the radiation research has moved from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. I always had visions of the earthquake-loosened Cyclotron skidding down into the Bay spewing heavy particles as it went.

[scothen-krau.livejournal.com]

I felt it at work - probably something to do with being on the 17th floor of a 40 story building. Just a little swaying back and forth, more or less identical to a boat crossing a gentle wake.

And yeah, the Hayward is the one for the Bay Area to worry about. form what I heard, the San Andreas is pretty relaxed up this way.

[the-steelmare.livejournal.com]

'89 was sort of a minor chiropractic adjustment to give us time to ignore all the warnings.

[holfax.livejournal.com]

Not a one. Sacramento must be out of God's jurisdiction.