Hope all is well up there.
Better to have some smaller ones to relieve the tension.
At least that's the hope.......
If one considers a 6.4M a "smaller one"
I like the <3.0 ones a lot better for relieving pressure.
OOPs, my bad, I see who you're replying to now.
Agreed. 6.4 is pushing it.
I didn't make that too clear.
Happens after a couple glasses of vino.
I'm not sure exactly where Cert lives, but those pins look to be on the Hayward Fault.
Geology class in colige 30 years ago, seems the thinking was that fault might be one of ones to really let loose soon..........geologically soon that is.
Hope those little ones aren't precursors.
The Cascadia Fault makes the others look miniscule. When it lets loose it will be THE BIG ONE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zoneOh, we learned all about that one too!
Saw the places on the beach where the shore dropped 8' in one shot, as evidenced by the spruce stumps there.
All anyone needs to see just how broken up all of that portion of NorCal is, from Cape Mendocino (the Triple Junction) to well past the Oregon border, just look at a map and tell me which way the Eel, Salmon Ck, Elk R, Freshwater Ck, Jacoby Ck, Mad R, Redwood Ck, Mouth of the Klamath and the S Fork of the Trinity run. There's a little pattern there.
It's a hotbed of activity at the southern end of the Cascadia subduction zone. I was glad I lived 10 miles or so inland when I was in that area. It's not going to be fun when it lets loose.