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5.2 Earthquake Shakes Up SF Bay Area
Joe Kaz wrote in (along with a number of other concerned folks): "There was a 5.2 Earthquake in Gilroy, CA, 70 miles south of San Francisco. The epicenter was 4.7 miles below surface. It lasted for about 10 seconds, and it did seem like a long time. Everything shook for a while, and it was a little scary. No reports of damage yet. Hope everyone is ok." I've got a report from my sisters father-in-law in gilroy (the epicenter) and he barely noticed it. Nate Oostendorp noted that "My stereo shook a little" in Walnut Creek. The SF Gate story on the quake notes that there are some phones out in some small parts of San Jose. The usgs has an event monitoring page if you are interested.
Okay, forget karma or what not for a second. Honestly, why is this on slashdot? I'm not sure I approve of reporting minor earthquakes in San Francisco when I know hundreds of people die every day or so in huge catastrophes across the world. I'm an American, but I'm a little sick of this American-centric view of what's important. Either all minor disasters get reported, or none of them.
F-bacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
Yeah, those blizzards and hurricanes must be great fun.
How on earth do all you Californians deal with it?
How? Because they almost never happen. The last major one in the Bay Area was in 1989. Before that? Probably the one by Eureka in 1922. The last to do a major amount of damage? 1906. Every one since the 1989 quake has been just a tiny little rumbling.
Trivial. Folks who don't live here sometimes seem under the impression that we're constantly shutting down due to earthquakes. Fact is, in northern California, you're probably only going to be in a major quake once in your life.
On the other hand, I was a little nervous when I worked on the second floor of a building in San Francisco that was made of 50-year old unreinforced brick.
Fun fact: California gets a bad earthquake rap, but 10 of the 15 largest earthquakes recorded in the US (including the top 8) were in Alaska. The greatest recorded earthquake in the contiguous United States was located in Missouri, not a place that usually comes to mind when one thinks "earthquake."
East Coast: Hurricanes, Blizzards, Nor'easters EVERY FUCKING YEAR. Hundreds killed EVERY FUCKING YEAR.
Still prefer the East Coast?
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
Sorry people, I don't think that a local 'weather' report is worthy of a
I'm as about concerned about minor quakes in the US as I sure most
This is not
trellick