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Tuesday, March 14, 2006


The "Most dangerous" place I've ever lived

So the USGS has a new map of the Hayward Fault, billed as the "most dangerous" in the Bay Area which, given the amount of seismic activity and the population density in the East Bay, probably makes it one of the "most dangerous" in the world.

I used lived for years in the Montclair section of Oakland, up in the hills off Highway 13 which pretty much traces the fault through that stretch of the East Bay. For all the planning and talk of quake preparedness kits, the only way to live in the Bay Area and appreciate how wonderful it is is to pretty much forget that the place sits atop some pretty shakey ground. The weather helps a lot in that regard.

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