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How You Could Get an Early Warning for the Next Big Quake

How You Could Get an Early Warning for the Next Big Quake

How You Could Get an Early Warning for the Next Big Quake

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

January 5, 20185m 36s

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Show Notes

At 2:39 am Thursday morning, millions of Bay Area residents from Sacramento to San Jose were shaken awake by the rolling tremble of a 4.4 magnitude earthquake. The eight-mile deep tremor struck along the Hayward fault, two miles southeast of Berkeley. From my apartment just 20 blocks from the epicenter, I woke with the rest of the neighborhood and rode out the wake from bed for about 10 seconds.

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