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02-08-2008, 06:38 PM
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Don't live on reclaimed land. Much of the bayfront is man-made and weak. The Marina was exposed as such in '89.
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02-08-2008, 06:44 PM
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Exposed? It was well known. There are maps all over the place showing the original coastline of San Francisco. Anything here now that wasn't then, is fill.
Last edited by ImRandy; 02-08-2008 at 08:18 PM..
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02-08-2008, 08:04 PM
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and turn off your gas after a quake.
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Most experts suggest you do this only if you smell gas. It is not safe for an unlicensed homeowner to turn the gas back on, so if you turn it off you could be waiting quite a while for PG&E to show up.
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02-08-2008, 08:28 PM
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Speaking of earthquakes, did anyone feel that 3.0 early Thursday morning? I'd just fallen asleep, when I heard a loud CREAK, my dog barked, and then my bed shook for a second... it was centered in Pacifica, so probably was only felt around the city & north Peninsula. Isn't life on a fault-line exciting??
Also, has anyone noticed how much activity is happening around Alum Rock (south San Jose)? Are they sitting on a precarious fault, or what?
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02-08-2008, 08:35 PM
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Quote:
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Speaking of earthquakes, did anyone feel that 3.0 early Thursday morning? I'd just fallen asleep, when I heard a loud CREAK, my dog barked, and then my bed shook for a second... it was centered in Pacifica, so probably was only felt around the city & north Peninsula. Isn't life on a fault-line exciting??
Also, has anyone noticed how much activity is happening around Alum Rock (south San Jose)? Are they sitting on a precarious fault, or what?
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I think the Alum Rock fault is the one they just tied into the Hayward fault.. and yeah -- it's been a little active down there...
I live about 1/8 of a mile from the Hayward fault.
Pewp. 
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02-08-2008, 09:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gizmo980
Speaking of earthquakes, did anyone feel that 3.0 early Thursday morning? I'd just fallen asleep, when I heard a loud CREAK, my dog barked, and then my bed shook for a second... it was centered in Pacifica, so probably was only felt around the city & north Peninsula. Isn't life on a fault-line exciting??
Also, has anyone noticed how much activity is happening around Alum Rock (south San Jose)? Are they sitting on a precarious fault, or what?
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I was up and felt it. I heard it coming first though. I was really surprised when they said Pacifica because I heard the rumbling coming from the Northeast and the motion seemed to come from the same direction. We had a really small one about 20 minutes ago. Couldn't feel it at all.
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02-08-2008, 11:55 PM
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You people are hilarious referring to living on a fault as "exciting" !!!!! I'd probably be so freaked even in the tiniest quake that I'd have a heart attack because of intense fright!
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02-09-2008, 12:10 AM
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Nah. The majority of them you don't even feel. Then there's a large portion of them you feel but are so slight you're not sure you felt it or attribute it to other sources like maybe a truck drove by outside or somebody was walking around upstairs. There really aren't that many that make you concerned and it's pretty rare for one to do damage. Once you get up to that size as long as there is no damage or injury, exciting is probably the best word to describe it.
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02-09-2008, 03:53 AM
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Now I'm scared to go in San Francisco.
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02-09-2008, 04:12 AM
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I felt two while in San Francisco, one was while walking on Market St and it sounded like a loud rumble, people stopped and told me, otherwise I would have had no idea ...the second, I was watching TV in bed and the pictures on the wall started swaying a bit and I felt the bed move, as if I was on a boat. It was not scary at all. But then I'm not afraid of nature, I feel whatever happens, happens, how can you stop nature from doing it's thing? But if you have a phobia about earthquakes or things that are out of your control, it can probably be too scary to live in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area.
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