THIS IS A SCENARIO EARTHQUAKE FOR USE DURING
UC BERKELEY'S
EARTHQUAKE TRAINING EXERCISE
THIS EVENT IS A
SIMULATION.
| Information from the UCB & USGS Menlo Park | |
| Location: | 7 km SSE of Fremont, CA
37.490 -121.920 |
| Date & Time (Local): | 2000/05/25
08:00:00 |
| Date & Time (UTC): | 2000/05/25
15:00:00 |
| Depth (km): | 7.0 |
| Mw: (Preferred) | 6.7 |
| Fault System: | Hayward Fault |
05/25/2000 09:30 AM: A few hours ago, a magnitude 6.7 (Mw) earthquake struck along the southern Hayward fault. This is the largest earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta quake (Mw 6.9) and the first to rupture the southern Hayward fault since the 1868 earthquake.
The earthquake initiated 7 km SSE of Fremont and ruptured toward Berkeley, with a strike-slip mechanism. Between 30-40 km of the fault are estimated to have ruptured, with an average of 1 m of slip. This is large enough to have ruptured some fault-crossing facilities.
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