The accompanying figure shows the updated probabilities for earthquakes of magnitude 6.7 or greater in the next 30 years. The overall probability of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake in the Greater Bay Area is 63%, about 2 out of 3 ..
Now this is pretty discomforting right? I’ve gotten woken up two mornings in a row by an earthquake—pretty scary right? I haven’t experienced an earthquake for a while until just recently in the past 36 hours—even with living in Berkeley. Lots of earthquake preparedness talk about to go on, that’s for sure. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake sounds really daunting, and I guess that is really the only thing that makes me not like living in California, considering I am deathly afraid of natural disasters. But I guess it’s either frequent blizzards, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes right? You gotta pick at least one natural disaster to live near.
