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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Magnitude-3.7 quake rattles San Francisco Bay area
2006-12-21
(12-20) 19:38 PST Berkeley, Calif. (AP) -- A small earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area Wednesday evening, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

The quake, which struck at 7:12 p.m., had a preliminary magnitude of 3.7 and was centered about 2 miles east of Berkeley, just across the bay from San Francisco, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

No one reported any damage or injuries, according to a Berkeley police dispatcher.

The temblor occurred on the Hayward Fault, which geologists believe is due for a large quake in the potentially lethal 6.7 to 7.0 range.

"It's a pretty small earthquake, but just another reminder we're eventually going to have the biggie here in the Bay Area," said David P. Schwartz, who has studied the Hayward Fault extensively as chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's Bay Area Earthquake Hazards Project.

The Great Quake of 1868 struck on the Hayward Fault, a magnitude 6.9 rumbler that killed five people. Severe quakes have happened on the Hayward Fault every 151 years, give or take 23 years, meaning it is now into the danger zone.
Fingers crossed. Lol.
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#15  FOTS,
"Getting shoved" from behind is xactly how I describ my experience in the 89 quake. I was stopped for a red light in Fremont, and spent the first 15 seconds of the quake believing my pick up truck was blowing an engine, throwing a rod and then glaring into the rearview mirror seeing which one of my AHOLE freinds had come up behind me and was pushing my vehicle.
Only then did I again see a wave of energy moving south to north through the intersecton and I was finally hit with the big cluebat that it was a big earthquake.
I still rushed home cause I didn't want to miss the beginning of the World Series game.
Posted by: Capsu 78   2006-12-21 23:38  

#14  Capsu 78, I thought it was, "My Bologna".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-12-21 18:56  

#13  FOTSGreg, are you at Lawrence? or up above Cal?
Posted by: RD   2006-12-21 18:51  

#12  Capsu 78 LOL! damn I wasted alot of time chasing skirt, drinking and getting high...ah a wonderful mis-spent youth plus a few, it sure waz fun!

re 'quake: heh let have the BIG ONE!
Posted by: RD   2006-12-21 18:47  

#11  I was up at the Lab last night and felt the quake distinctily.

I was leaning up against a truck at the time talking with a friend of mine and it felt like someone had come up and shoved the truck real hard. I stepped back looked at him, he looked at me, and both of us said almost simultaneously,

"What the f*ck was that?"

We were in the Bldg 88 parking lot which is about 50 yards from the Hayward fault (maybe a thousand yards away from Memorial Stadium which the fault runs directly through the center of).

Short, sharp, and noticeable, but not as bad as the Loma Prieta by one helluva' long shot.

I'm told that Washington called the gate after I left wondering if everythingwas okay and put everyone through our eartquake drill.

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2006-12-21 18:44  

#10  Ah yes, the Hayward fault, where I felt my first earthquake as a young kid just out of college. I was sitting in a wooden framed tennis club that later was incinerated in the Oakland Hills firestorm. I watched the energy wave come right through the building.
Then we lit up a doobie and listened to My Sharoona on the radio. Kinda miss those days...good times, good times
Posted by: Capsu 78   2006-12-21 17:42  

#9  Likewise didn't feel a thing in Marin.
Posted by: remoteman   2006-12-21 17:24  

#8  I live less than 20 miles away...didn't feel a thing...slow news day 3.7 is page B news as someone pointed out
Posted by: Warthog   2006-12-21 11:02  

#7  Pfffft!

3.5, hardly worth noticing.
Posted by: mojo   2006-12-21 10:12  

#6  I remember having frequent earthquake drills when I lived there as a little kid.
A beautiful city, although I haven't been there in many years.
Posted by: jan from lockdown   2006-12-21 09:58  

#5  Back when I lived in OC, a 3.7 was page B-11 news. You had to be at least 5.0 to make it to A-5 or better.
Posted by: Jackal   2006-12-21 08:56  

#4  Weather forecast: partially cloudy with flurries of fire and brimstone later in the day.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-12-21 08:17  

#3  Didn't feel a danged thang. Just the way I like 'em. Many and close between.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-21 06:22  

#2  way tiny...
Posted by: RD   2006-12-21 02:12  

#1  Guess that explains the colors and sparks in the magnetic field yestiddy, D ***nged WHITE BUFFALO from MYSTIC WARRIOR.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-12-21 01:12  

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