{"id":31531,"date":"2018-02-23T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31531"},"modified":"2018-02-23T21:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T02:14:25","slug":"what-just-hit-us-bay-area-rattled-by-unusual-quake-swarm-trains-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31531","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Just Hit Us?&#8221; &#8211; Bay Area Rattled By Unusual Quake Swarm, Trains Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-23\/what-just-hit-us-bay-area-rattled-unusual-quake-swarm-trains-delayed\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;What Just Hit Us?&#8221; &#8211; Bay Area Rattled By Unusual Quake Swarm, Trains Delayed<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"#222\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Following<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-17\/ring-fire-quake-cluster-prompts-scientists-warn-large-rupture-sooner-later\"> &#8220;strained&#8221; magma chamber concerns at Yellowstone,<\/a> Bay Area residents have grown increasingly concerned this week as a swarm of well over 50 earthquakes has struck in recent days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-02-23_17-03-06.jpg?itok=I0KDeEmI\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Culminating in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Bay-Area-Earthquake-Map-309867371.html\">at least 32 quakes<\/a> in the last 24 hours as large as magnitude 3.6 which struck the East Bay town of Danville around 3pmET today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-02-23_17-17-05.jpg?itok=2OuApoQr\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s been nuts. It wakes us up every night. We have a little dog, sleeps on the bed with us, and he freaks out all the time,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> said Danville resident Christian Sommer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nbcLMP4750103237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/templates\/nbc_partner_player?cmsID=475010323&amp;videoID=YenvjVvPVD8F&amp;origin=nbcbayarea.com&amp;sec=news&amp;subsec=local&amp;fullWidth=y&amp;turl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2018-02-23%2Fwhat-just-hit-us-bay-area-rattled-unusual-quake-swarm-trains-delayed&amp;ourl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com&amp;lp=5&amp;fullWidth=y&amp;random=0sopvq\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains were impacted by the quakes with trains delayed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-02-23_17-01-37.jpg?itok=H5fuJDfX\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DWv5USUUQAABUKZ.jpg?itok=EJZ01fvF\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cLooking in that general region, I\u2019m counting 55 quakes just in the last week,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>said Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 fault lines run through the bay.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-02-23_17-12-49.jpg?itok=t1CwHiec\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several more significant temblors then shook up Diablo area businesses at midday &#8211; the strongest being a 3.6.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;I was sitting at my desk when the first one hit,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> said Danville resident Brenda Hammer. <strong>&#8220;And I thought something hit the building was my initial reaction. What just hit us?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was another swarm of quakes just three days ago on Tuesday.Some in the East Bay are busy retrofitting for a bigger quake.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-04\/bay-area-jolted-awake-magnitude-45-earthquake\">This swarm comes just a few weeks after a 4.4 quake jolted much of Bay Area awake in January.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What Just Hit Us?&#8221; &#8211; Bay Area Rattled By Unusual Quake Swarm, Trains Delayed Following &#8220;strained&#8221; magma chamber concerns at Yellowstone, Bay Area residents have grown increasingly concerned this week as a swarm of well over 50 earthquakes has struck in recent days&#8230; Culminating in at least 32 quakes in the last 24 hours as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,222,18904,4318],"class_list":["post-31531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-earthquakes","tag-quake-storm","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31532,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531\/revisions\/31532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}