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- From: andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
- Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes
- Subject: Re: HAYWARD FAULT????
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:32:29 GMT
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- In article <41246@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cs65xaq@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Elvis) writes:
- >I have a question for anyone out there...I know there are certain
- >tendancies for earthquakes to occur at certain times.
- >For instance, when the sun and moon are in sync so they are actually
- >re-inforcing each others' pull on the earth.
- Actually this has never been proven to happen at useful level. The
- study I trust most suggested that one in 80 earthquakes may be triggered
- by tides.
-
- >I also know that as far back as history goes, almost without fail
- >there has been a big quke onthe hayward fault 3 years after a san
- >andreas (bay area section) quake---any word of that theory being
- >shot down? October 17th, 1992 came and went and unless I'm TOTALLY
- >out of it, there's been nothing...Since this is just a set of
- >observations, it is not guaranteed 2 work every time, of course--
- >but can anyone tell me the latest about the theories about
- >earthquakes? Is this theory still valid? Is anyone especialy on
- >watch for earthquakes because it IS fall of '92? Or is that given
- >only very little credit?
- Yeah, but history doesn't go back very far and it wasn't always
- the Hayward second. There are two cases of close together large
- earthquakes. The 1865 event on the Santa Cruz Mts segment (or
- near there) of the San Andreas fault and the 1868 Hayward event.
- And the 1836 Hayward event and the 1838 probably Peninsula segment
- of the San Andreas fault event. And of course now the 1989 Loma
- Prieta and nothing on the Hayward. Plus the 1906 and nothing on
- the Hayward. A while ago Paul Reasenberg did some statistics and
- showed that given the history of earthquakes in the Bay Area
- since the early 1800's the probability that two of the inter-event
- times are less than 3 years is not significant at the 95% confidence
- level. Nor does any physical model I like suggest that one fault
- should trigger the other, in fact the oppossite should be true as
- they remove stress from each other. Hence, many seismologists don't
- take this pairing to be important although some still do.
-
- Andy
-