The modeled hypocenter of the tiny earthquake just now was 7.5 km directly below the zoo: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73865490/executive.
This reminds me of how, if I recall, the HayWired scenario put its nominal epicenter on some random private property. You have to wonder how the people who live there felt about that, and what it might have done to their property value.
(Another one as I was typing this.)
Good to have a “We know what we’re doing if the Hayward Fault goes today, right?” conversation after a filling breakfast.
Remembering: One of the last crowded things we did pre-pandy was ZooLights 2019 with friends. At the end of the evening, we’re on the balcony of the upper gondola station as the café staff is closing. There’s a rumble from some equipment and I say to a friend, who works in disaster management, that part of my brain irrationally worries that any big noise is an earthquake. She cocks her head and says brains are weird. Today’s earthquakes were (± margin of error) directly under us at that moment.
(There was something about zoo + earthquake that was ringing a dusty bell, and it’s exceedingly satisfying to actually remember it instead of wondering all day “why did that seem slightly more interesting than it should have?”)
