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The Biggest Earthquake Since 1989

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Topic(s): me
2007-10-31 01:48:18 US/Pacific

 Just a bit after 8pm. It was a 5.6 on the Richter, by far the biggest earthquake since I moved to the Bay Area in 2001. My previous biggest was a 4.4 in 2001. For comparison, the famous 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (which collapsed a section of the Bay Bridge) was a 6.9.

There was quite a bit of shaking. I knew it was an earthquake right away. It was a gentle rolling at first. After about five seconds it intensified. I worried for a second or two that it might intensify even more, in which case we would have been in serious trouble. But it didn't, and it went away just as quickly as it started.

The scary part about earthquakes is you don't know the location of the epicenter. You might be right on top of it, or it might be 1000 miles away. If it's 1000 miles away and you feel it, you know it must be very bad for those people at the epicenter. (After a few minutes I learned the epicenter for this one was about 12 miles away from Mountain View.)

At any rate, there is not much damage to speak of. The San Jose Mercury News reports that a garbage bin rolled into a truck, slightly damaging it. Oh, the horror.



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anonymous — 2007-10-31 11:24:50 US/Pacific —
A lady at work told me that she heard a big one is coming within a year & she's thinking of buying earthquake insurance for her house. I hope the "big one" was the yesterday's earthquake.
Ngan — 2007-11-05 11:24:09 US/Pacific —
Different topic-article on Yahoo: Google to enter mobile phone market with software

- Google Inc (GOOG.O) on Monday spelled out long-rumored plans to enter the mobile phone market in 2008 by building software that could help the industry make the Internet run more easily on phones.



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