Shake, Rattle and Roll
Well, shake and rattle, anyway.
I'm spending the afternoon in Green Library, the main library on the Stanford campus, minding my business and, after the honeybee fandango took up my morning, trying to get some work done. Three minutes ago the building shook. Quite a few people looked up from their carrels, startled.
Yup. A moment of Googling confirmed it. On this, the one hundred and fifth anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Northern California just experienced a pretty good temblor. The epicenter, apparently, was just up the road in Belmont, and the shake registered a 3.8. Not enough to do any damage, thank goodness, but more than enough to get everyone's attention, believe me.
My. This birthday is proving more eventful than I'd planned.
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May '10
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Felt it over here in Oakland. Your birthday, Peter, is truly an earth-shaking event. Have a very happy one (and many more).
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No one will believe this, but I went to bed feeling anxious about an earthquake. This is not a typical worry of mine, mind you. Then I woke up and felt that today was the day for an earthquake. Sat down at the computer. Opened up Ricochet, then Twitter. Saw Melissa Clouthier's tweet inquiring about an SF quake prediction. Then got occupied with work and let my anxiety escape me. And then the quake hit. I'm almost disappointed in how small it was.
Dec '10
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Console yourself with the idea that maybe it's only a pre-shock.
Feb '11
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Bees, earthquakes....is the Apocalypse upon us?
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I was stopped at a traffic light in Redwood City, just five miles or so from Belmont, when I felt a sudden sidewise lurch. My first thought was that somebody had just hit my car; my second that this might be the beginning of some larger overpass demolishing event. Nope. Fortunately, just a brief jolt.
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Stuart Creque
Console yourself with the idea that maybe it's only a pre-shock. · Apr 18 at 3:27pm
Stuart, that will be quite enough out of you!
May '10
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No. Famine. Peter's teenagers will come home tonight, say, "I'm hungry!" and clean the poor boy out.
Feb '11
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Happy birthday to the man that in my and my wife's opinion has the coolest job in America! May your next year be your best yet. Enjoy the next loop around the sun.
Jun '10
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EJHill
No. Famine. Peter's teenagers will come home tonight, say, "I'm hungry!" and clean the poor boy out. · Apr 18 at 3:36pm
War perhaps? Maybe the good conservatives at the Hoover Institution will decide it's time to have it out with the Stanford faculty. I can picture Peter, VDH, and Thomas Sowell ready to rumble.
Jul '10
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I predict a quake of magnitude 7.0 or more for either Alaska or California within the next 12 months.
You heard it here first.
Dec '10
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Peter Robinson
Stuart Creque
Console yourself with the idea that maybe it's only a pre-shock. · Apr 18 at 3:27pm
Stuart, that will be quite enough out of you! · Apr 18 at 3:34pm
Tonight is the first night of Passover, when we recount the Ten Plagues of Egypt. Apparently the modern version involves the Ten Tribulations of Robinson.
Two down, eight to go!
Oct '10
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Kenneth: I predict a quake of magnitude 7.0 or more for either Alaska or California within the next 12 months.
You heard it here first. · Apr 18 at 3:45pm
Perhaps so, an unsettling thought considering recent events..
Suggest a turban, cape and a few envelopes, perhaps the roll of a new Karnak is in the future for you...
Jul '10
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wilber forge
Kenneth: I predict a quake of magnitude 7.0 or more for either Alaska or California within the next 12 months.
You heard it here first. · Apr 18 at 3:45pm
Perhaps so, an unsettling thought considering recent events..
Suggest a turban, cape and a few envelopes, perhaps the roll of a new Karnak is in the future for you... · Apr 18 at 3:53pm
Well, just look at the boundaries of the North American, Pacific and Nazca tectonic plates. Then look at recent massive earthquakes - Chile, New Zealand, Japan. It's North America's turn. Big time.
I've got my supply of water, emergency rations, candles and lanterns.
And, of course, ammunition.
May '10
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Now they've downgraded it to a 3.4mag. Oh well... It was short and sharp here in Foster City. A little something to wake up the office on a slow Monday.
Still it was on the big fault, the San Andreas, which always get's people worked up. Might be time to check on the emergency supplies...
Oct '10
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Kenneth
wilber forge
Kenneth: I predict a quake of magnitude 7.0 or more for either Alaska or California within the next 12 months.
You heard it here first. · Apr 18 at 3:45pm
Perhaps so, an unsettling thought considering recent events..
Suggest a turban, cape and a few envelopes, perhaps the roll of a new Karnak is in the future for you... · Apr 18 at 3:53pm
Well, just look at the boundaries of the North American, Pacific and Nazca tectonic plates. Then look at recent massive earthquakes - Chile, New Zealand, Japan. It's North America's turn. Big time.
I've got my supply of water, emergency rations, candles and lanterns.
And, of course, ammunition. · Apr 18 at 4:02pm
The West Coast is long overdue for a serious event. Particularly the plates off the Oregon Coast, a 10.0 scale quake is due if history repeats as it often does...
Had been in Orange Co. during many quakes, including the Northridge event. Willing to live with some of that, not the tax system.
Good to be prepared for such disasters, save one thing... When comes to shove, who will assert their right to personal survivial ?
May '10
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Funny. I can picture it, too!
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Not to mention Peter's recent illness, which I won't mention of course. Then Standard and Poors downgrades America's credit rating. Not to mention the looming debt battles, which I also won't mention, plus three wars. And, as Stuart reminds us, this is Passover as well. Peter, if a guy who looks remarkably like Charlton Heston shows up, I'd be on the next whatever-I-could-find out of town.
Jul '10
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Dave Carter
I'd be on the next whatever-I-could-find out of town. · Apr 18 at 4:37pm
I'd first get out of the hand basket.
Jul '10
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wilber forge
Kenneth
wilber forge
Kenneth: I predict a quake of magnitude 7.0 or more for either Alaska or California within the next 12 months.
You heard it here first. · Apr 18 at 3:45pm
Perhaps so, an unsettling thought considering recent events..
Suggest a turban, cape and a few envelopes, perhaps the roll of a new Karnak is in the future for you... · Apr 18 at 3:53pm
Well, just look at the boundaries of the North American, Pacific and Nazca tectonic plates. Then look at recent massive earthquakes - Chile, New Zealand, Japan. It's North America's turn. Big time.
I've got my supply of water, emergency rations, candles and lanterns.
And, of course, ammunition. · Apr 18 at 4:02pm
Good to be prepared for such disasters, save one thing... When comes to shove, who will assert their right to personal survivial ? · Apr 18 at 4:31pm
Oh, I will be very assertive. My water, my food, my shelter. My assault rifle.
Your problem that you failed to plan ahead.
Apr '11
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The USGS publishes a really cool tool for Google Earth here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/eqs7day-age.kmz
You can see tremors around the world updated every 5 mins.
It looks like Nevada has been a lot more active than N. California lately.
Edited on Apr 18, 2011 at 4:46pm