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- From: andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
- Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes
- Subject: Re: Creeping Quakes?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 00:35:11 GMT
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- In article <1k1udb$cua@agate.berkeley.edu> pedro@eerc.berkeley.edu (Peter Clark) writes:
- >Related to this and quite relevant to those of us in the East Bay,
- >I'm somewhat curious about the recent small quakes near the San Leandro/
- >Oakland border. The first one caused a bit of damage to chimneys right
- >in the epicentral "neighborhood" (literally - only one street showed signs
- >of damage). The next one was a week or two later and slightly smaller,
- >but if I remember correctly, the weekly report said it was in almost
- >the exact same location. I realize that the Hayward fault is always
- >grumbling a bit, but these successive quakes in the same spot got me thinking,
- >especially after someone told me that strong East Bay quakes
- >have sometimes followed strong South bay quakes (i.e. Loma Prieta) rather
- >closely.
-
- This is a fairly active spot on the Hayward fault and as earthquakes
- cluster in space and time (e.g. aftershocks) two events close together
- and near each other in time are not much more interesting than just the
- first event. Only if there are far more events than expected in a time
- period should one start finding it very interesting. I don't think this
- is such a case.
-
- Also, the evidence for quakes on the Hayward and in the Loma Prieta area
- being tied together is weak. It happenned twice in the 1800's but there
- were a lot of earthquakes during that time period in the Bay Area and
- thus the random chance of this happenning without a mechanism is high
- enough (10 to 20%) to make it hard to believe that a mechanism does exist.
-
- Andy
-