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“Big Rumble” Resource Fairs Will Be All Over San Francisco this October 17th
TweetCan you hazard a guess as to why? Here are all the deets: THE BIG RUMBLE – SAN FRANCISCO 20th Anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta...
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San Francisco to Test Sirens at 10:15 AM on Thursday, October 15th, 2009
TweetThis is a test. Only a test. Normally, you’d only hear these sirens on Tuesdays at noon. There’s no need for alarm. Deets below. CITYWIDE SIRENS TO SOUND AS PART OF EARTHQUAKE DRILL What: The...
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This Place on Masonic is Probably the Last Place You’d Want to Be During an...
TweetSure, it’s right next to the Masonic TJ’s and the parking is easy, but would you want to be inside this brown and white houseboat on stilts during an earthquake? Click to expand: Maybe not. But...
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A Little Shaking in San Francisco – Didn’t Feel Like a Scary Earthquake Here
Tweet7:47 AM, June 28th – The bay area just got a few little rolls from an “adorable” quake that had an epicenter just three miles to the west of the San Francisco Zoo, under the Pacific on the San...
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Magnitude 3.2 Earthquake: San Francsico, 2:29 PM Friday, July 23rd, 2010
TweetThis must be a twin of the one we just felt on June 28th. Did You Feel It? Mag= 3.5 3.2, MMI= IV All the deets of Event nc71436076: Magnitude 3.5 Date-Time Friday, July 23, 2010 at 21:29:10 UTC...
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Resolved: Earthquakes with Magnitudes of Less than 3.0 are Not Worth...
TweetWell, run for the hills, Ma Barker – it’s been reported that Danville, CA had an earthquake of magnitude 2.0 on the Richter (or, IRL, moment magnitude) scale this morning. Now really, is this...
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Precautionary Closure of Western Beaches and the Great Highway This Morning –...
TweetThe San Francisco Department of Emergency Management is up early today, concerned about a possible small tsunami hitting San Francisco due to the recent 8.9 earthquake near Sendai, Japan. Per...
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Forget About Playland at the Beach – These Days, It’s All About Experiencing...
TweetThusly. Hold on kids, it’s about to earthquake! Click to expand Wouldn’t you and your kids like to ride the Quake Cottage? Available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc, I’m sure. And it’s probably...
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Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Struck UC Berkeley at 2:41 PM, October 20th 2011 –...
Tweet[Or rather, make that a 4.0 on the Richter, final answer. That was for the afternoon earthquake. This evening's aftershock at 8:16 PM was a 3.8.] People in the West Bay could definitely feel this...
View Article“Telstar Logistics is Marginally Prepared!”– A Lecture about Earthquake...
TweetCheck it: “In this week’s episode of Totally Unprepared, we visit the San Francisco home of Telstar Logistics founder, Todd Lappin, and his daughter Miel. Our host Ron Haralson quizes Todd on his...
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Here’s What Our Massive “Left Coast Lifter” Barge Crane is Doing These Days:...
TweetCould be: “The massive crane is expected to be used during construction of the New Tappan Zee Bridge, a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River in New York State by Tappan...
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Living Large in the Inner Richmond, High on the Hog Above a Building’s Weak...
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View ArticleWell, Check Out This New Video from the New York Times: “On Shaky Ground”–...
TweetCheck it: Thursday 10/17 marks the 25th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake in northern California. NYTimes.com and Retro Report teamed up to create this documentary-style video of the 1989...
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“Quake Shaming,” Frisco-Style: Millionaire Property Owners Won’t Like Seeing...
TweetI’d heard of these newish warnings, but hadn’t actually seen them. Les mise-en-scene Complete with exclamation points: Is this what they call an “unfunded mandate?” Ah tink so!
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The Shame and Embarrassment of Your Building Having a “Soft Story”– This is...
TweetIf you’d look inside of this crib in the Marina Landfill, you’d see a whole lot of nothing, just parking space for cars mostly. Prolly wasn’t a good idea to put up these kinds of buildings in the...
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1906 Earthquake Shack: Reclaimed Wood From Before It Was Reclaimed
TweetThis is what they looked like back in the day, before getting gussied up: Click to expand The Next Big One, she is coming. Sooner or later. In the meantime, be sure to check out Earthquake: Life...
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With Love from Japan: Earthquake-Proof and Tsunami-Proof Soccer Ball Houses –...
TweetOh c’mon! Head on up to our Randall Museum to see other outside of the box / 20-sided truncated icosahedron ideas on earthquake safety. From the source, the “Barier” people: “Is your present house...
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Hydraulic Seismic Dampers: These Contraptions are What’s Going to Keep You...
TweetThese kinds of things are what holds up Frisco’s State Building in Civic Center: Normally you can’t see them, but Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP designed a nice window for at least one: Hurrah...
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Frisco’s Most Windswept Bus Stop – Less a Shelter Than a Sine Wave-Based,...
TweetIDK, what’s the roof supposed to be, p-waves from the Big One what’s going to come and kill some of us some day? IDK but I think so. Ooh, how, how … practical? Most of the time, the wind comes...
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