2.9

Posted at 12:05 am on Thursday, March 2, 2006, in Uncategorized.

Tonight I felt my first earthquake since nearly two years ago, a magnitude 3.6 on April 29, 2004. Tonight’s earthquake, located southeast of Berkeley, has been preliminarily given a magnitude 2.9. I was on the third floor of our new home watching CSI: NY at 10:08pm when I felt a rumble below me (as I laid on my sofa) and then an instant later (the whole shaking event lasted less than 1.5 seconds) heard the rumble of our television shaking on our Ikea TV stand. There were two other notable earthquakes today in the same area, although I did not feel either of those. The earthquakes occured along the Hayward Fault, a strike-slip fault that is northward-trending throughout the East Bay. (Our home is approximately less than four miles from the fault, which is capable of a magintude 7.1 earthquake; that is not a good thing.)

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