Particulars on the Napa-San Francisco Earthquake of 8/24/14

Particulars on the Napa-San Francisco Earthquake of 8/24/14

The U.S. Geological Survey revised its estimate Monday of the chances for a strong, damaging aftershock in the next seven days. Sunday, the agency put that chance at 54 percent. Monday, that figure was revised to 25 percent. Scores of aftershocks followed the early Sunday morning quake, the strongest a 3.6 shake at 5:47 am.

There are chances that this quake could be a pre-shock of one to come of a much larger scale.  But that is currently a hypothesis, but should not be ruled out.

Hospital reports treating 208 people between the time the earthquake struck at 3:20 a.m. and 11 p.m. Sunday. The hospital says a total of 17 people were admitted, most in fair to serious condition. One person remains in critical condition. Vallejo reported 49 injuries with two people hospitalized.

Statistics show an interesting feature to the area of San Francisco that is also seen in various areas around the ring of fire in the past 12 months.
San Francisco has had: (M1.5 or greater)

    12 earthquakes today
    77 earthquakes in the past 7 days
    94 earthquakes in the past month
    454 earthquakes in the past year

All the quakes in the past 36 hrs have only been 4 km to 8 km deep.

Monitoring for any pressure or shifting from sensors in the ground in the region of the San Francisco Bay will be monitored more closely.  The area of the San Andreas Fault along and north of San Francisco is being monitored.

This particular event is being looked at as a huge crack was found in Mexican desert just east of the northern part of the Gulf of California that coincides with pressure release from the southern San Andreas Fault.

Global satellites will continuing monitoring the shift in land that could be occurring and not felt on land as yet.  Sensors from the Earthscape 4 satellite revealed movement in the area just north of Los Angeles in the past 18 hours with no earthquake felt.  This is similar to what happened in Mexico.  All NOAA watchers in California are advised to be warned of more quakes of similar size at this time if the current conditions develop.  The percentage of the event is 15%.

Pastor Dr. Mike Moon