Not Shaken

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Gene

Just yesterday, I was talking with someone about earthquakes and how, after two years in the Bay Area, I hadn’t experienced more than a tiny sway.
And then this morning the voice on the radio told me that there had been one — that I missed. Judging from the USGS “Did You Feel It?” map, it wasn’t really felt here in San Jose. Oh, well.
More coincidentally, I was expecting — waiting — for an earthquake this week. Two reasons: first, because there was a big one in Japan and it was on my mind, but secondly and perhaps more important, because it is the middle of the month. You may remember a post I wrote last fall about this, my prediction that earthquakes cluster around the middle of the month, close to the 17th for some reason. The moon? Who knows. But it is worth noting that the 6.8 in Japan this week happened on the 16th…