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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Oct 18 2005
Looking Back at Loma Prieta and Looking Forward to...?
Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which gave us a wild ride here and also affected much of the rest of the country's residents who had just tuned in to watch the World Series. Yesterday we had the annual local TV mention of the quake, but I didn't hear any of them say anything locally about the Eastern Shear Zone, which YubaNet (and other online sources) gave a bit of attention to on their site. Scientists have spent a lot of time studying the San Andreas Fault and other fault areas that have very specific characterizations, but the Eastern Shear Zone sounds as though it's not only mysterious, but potentially catastrophic. Any area or fault that is known to have produced a magnitude 8 earthquake deserves a little healthy respect and probably bears watching a lot more closely than the fault areas that seem to cut loose with more frequency. Earthquake zones seem to me a bit like humans. You've really got to keep an eye on the quiet ones.
posted at: 09:04 | category: /Science | link to this entry
Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which gave us a wild ride here and also affected much of the rest of the country's residents who had just tuned in to watch the World Series. Yesterday we had the annual local TV mention of the quake, but I didn't hear any of them say anything locally about the Eastern Shear Zone, which YubaNet (and other online sources) gave a bit of attention to on their site. Scientists have spent a lot of time studying the San Andreas Fault and other fault areas that have very specific characterizations, but the Eastern Shear Zone sounds as though it's not only mysterious, but potentially catastrophic. Any area or fault that is known to have produced a magnitude 8 earthquake deserves a little healthy respect and probably bears watching a lot more closely than the fault areas that seem to cut loose with more frequency. Earthquake zones seem to me a bit like humans. You've really got to keep an eye on the quiet ones.
posted at: 09:04 | category: /Science | link to this entry
