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July 21, 2015 1:09 PM
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(CBS SF) The fault that produced a 4.0-magnitude earthquake in Fremont early Tuesday morning is expected to produce a major earthquake any day now and Bay Area residents should be prepared, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist said.
The 2:41 a.m. earthquake on the border of Fremont and Union City occurred on the Hayward Fault at a depth of 5 miles. The epicenter was at a spot just north of the
intersection of Niles Canyon Road and Mission Boulevard.
The quake caused some BART delays early Tuesday while work crews checked the tracks, but appears to have caused no major damage. At least 13 smaller quakes or aftershocks had been reported near the same location as of 6:42 a.m., the largest of which was a 2.7-magnitude at 2:56 a.m.
While damage from the quake was minimal, scientists warn that a much larger one is expected on the Hayward Fault, which extends from San Pablo Bay in the north to Fremont in the south and passes through heavily populated areas including Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward and Fremont.
The last big earthquake on the fault, estimated to have a 6.8-magnitude, occurred in 1868, according to the USGS.
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villager
(26,001 posts)...destruction, etc.
There is no "reasonable politics" to be had with such people. No "accommodation...."
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)The comments are awful.
packman
(16,296 posts)Those comments are vile and disgusting. Hard to believe that people think like that - racist, paranoid, and off the wall
think
(11,641 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)They've been predicting "the big one" for forever. It may come tomorrow, it may come in 30 years...
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Oneironaut
(5,547 posts)I can't take articles like this seriously, with no offense to the OP.