Dog ran around a bit,” he wrote on Twitter. People living on top of basin sediments and soft soils are at higher risk of feeling amplified shaking from a distant quake, whereas people living on bedrock, a hillside or a ridge are less likely to feel it.Įlliott, who was in San Francisco when Thursday’s quake hit, said he felt strong shaking. It’s expected for a quake of this magnitude to be felt broadly across the state, Elliott said. There have been a couple of dozen earthquakes larger than magnitude 5 in the region of Thursday’s quake in the last 50 years. Thursday’s earthquake was the largest in the region since the magnitude 6.1 Double Spring Flat earthquake in 1994 in sparsely populated western Nevada, which was felt from Sacramento to Elko, Nev., but did not result in loss of life.
Here’s a basic primer on the science of earthquakes. California How earthquakes happen: The science of a shakeīefore we can prepare for the Big One, we have to know what “one” is.
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