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Originally Posted by David
You guys have mentioned several areas that straddle faults. Other towns straddle faults, too, with visible signs of fault creep: Hollister has the Calaveras Fault running right through it (you can see some wild pictures here: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/...3_slides.shtml) & Hayward is skinned by the Hayward Fault. Even the Berkeley Memorial Stadium is apparently moving in a few different directions because of the Hayward Fault. There are homes in Hollister that are literally being pulled in two separate directions from Calaveras Fault creep.
So if you get out of bed one morning & reach for your slippers & find they are halfway across the room -- definitely not where you left them -- call FEMA!! |
I started to post Hollister as the Earthquake Capital until I read that Parkfield has the greatest event number of all earthquake towns......as I said, on average every 20 or so years, which is pretty frequent for earthquake events.
SF has had two HUGE earthqauakes and so has the mountain community of Owens Valley......which is surprising because it is deep in the Sierra Nevada...at any rate, I believe Parkfield wears the crown due to its frequency. Luckily, there are very few people that live there. AND, various Universities have set up monitoring devices there making it the most closely monitored spot in CA as well.
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