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

[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.