Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / December 2004

This San Francisco Chronicle article, http://tinyurl.com/5nq92 ,
describes some of the legal problems that arise when your neighborhood
creeps away from the original property lines. Berkeley California sits
astride the Hayward fault and on top of two slow moving land slides.

I was taking my regular jaunt over to the Coast To Coast
website to see what new kookery there was and actually found
something worthwhile and relevant.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page741.html

Every now and then its fun to make use of EQ catalogs to find out
informative and interesting facts.  My friend Don in Hollister and I
thought that there seemed to be fewer earthquakes on the weekends than
on week days and also wondered if commuter traffic increases EQ

If these folks are to be believed a never before recognized group of unusual
tremors
have been identified "under" the SAF South of Park near Cholame, Ca, the
area

ICJ3   BIRDY PREDICTS QUAKE
On June 23, we sent an email to Zale Taurus, Irene Pepperberg and our
friend teaching near the New Madrid  fault advising to listen and feel
for a seismic event.

AUSTRALIA IS IN THE MIDST OF THE WORSE DROUGHT SINCE 100 YEARS AND IT IS
STILL WORSENING !
IT IS KNOWN BY ALL THERE NOW AS THE DDD,  OR DIVINE DRUDGING DROUGHT
AT THE LIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING REPORT,  I AM ASKING YOU ALL, LADIES &

What's your favourite transform fault?
Mine's the Darling fault here in OZ that goes right up the west coast
of Australia, and separated Australia from India.
What's yours?

I just wanted to mention that I have been experiencing
severe problems with my ISP of late and it is affecting
my ability to send email.
I can receive email directed to my website but I am

I think earthquakes are just a myth to scare little kids.Never seen one.

Hi Susan:
Know that you're busy...but have to ask!
Saw a program called "Earthquake Storms" on Discovery Science Channel...and
there you were.  They were pronouncing your last name "Hooo"

I've been a little busy attending the AGU in San Francisco this week,
but I had a little lag time and decided to drop in and see how you lads
and lassies were doing.  Looks fairly normal, really.
I'm almost equal in proportion on the left and right sides of the brain

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/16/BAGK4ACKAP1.DTL
A particularly sinister form of fault may lie beneath Marin County and could
trigger an earthquake of up to 6.5 magnitude, perhaps during this century,
scientists plan to report at the American Geophysical ...

Everyone should take a good look at these pictures.  They are quite dramatic.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2004/12/17/MNGARADH401.DTL&o=0

Hi, I am not an expert on volcanoes, but I lived up in Washington State
when Mt. St. Helens exploded, I was about 9 years old. I saw it erupt
from about 30-40 miles away, and I was reading that is is a "small"
eruption by most standards. The 1980 Eruption is the only volcanic