Tuesday, April 18, 2006

On Shaky Ground

To mark the centennial of "The Big One", let me direct you to one of the coolest earthquake resources: the Association of Bay Area Goverments' "On Shaky Ground" website.
This map of San Francisco was generated from a screenshot of that site. It represents the shaking intensity from a simulated 7.0 quake on the North Hayward fault — one of the more likely scenarios. You can view shaking intesity, liquifaction, and other maps. You select the fault you want to simulate a quake on. And you can pan and zoom to see the simulated results for the places you care about: home, school, work, etc. Beware: you'll need a high speed connection. They advice using the IE browser, but Firefox works well too.

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