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Originally Posted by sp00ln
Doink, how come you know so much about earthquakes?
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I was in the Bay for Loma Prieta in '89, so I got interested in all that crap as a kid, and like Tyson said, I just remember it. 'Course I'm no authority... geology and the like can be very complicated... if it was simple we'd have earthquake predictions better than "80% chance of a 6.5 or greater in the next 40 years".
Speaking of Loma Prieta, it wasn't really that scary, even at age 12. What was much scarrier was a few years later when we had a "swarm" of quakes on the Hayward fault, located very close to my house. It was like 10 or 15 3.0-4.0 quakes over the course of a few days. One would hit and you'd be like "cool, it'll be a while before the next one"... then after 3 or 4 hours, you started getting a weird feeling in your gut: "when's the next one gonna hit!?" 'Course a bunch of 3.5's is way better than releasing all that energy in a single 8.0!