BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) — It is no key we are now living in earthquake country. But even yet in the Bay Area, some areas tend to be more at an increased risk for major harm from a quake that is large others. Two professionals assisted us recognize areas many in danger of catastrophic harm.

This is what you must know to learn if you are within an Earthquake hot zone.

A building in san francisco bay area’s Marina District collapsed like home of cards within the Loma Prieta earthquake. One thing similar took place in 1964 in Japan’s Niigata quake. Professionals blame injury to structures both in quakes on liquefaction.

“we now have the very soft soils coupled with a water this is certainly high that is known as liquefaction probabilities,” stated Brad Aagaard associated with United States Geological Survey in Mountain View.

USGS released a map with all the Bay region’s liquefaction areas in red — for risk.

The area begins at bay area’s Marina District, goes across the Embarcadero and also includes the Airport and elements of Millbrae and Foster City.

Within the East Bay, oahu is the exterior part of Alameda, over the Oakland waterfront plus the airport.

Substantial harm is predicted for most structures here in a quake that is a 6.7 magnitude or maybe more.

“it may tip or fall over,” said Horst Rademacher of the Berkeley Seismological Lab if you have a structure or a house or any building that is built on that.

Rademacher claims he is a lot more concerned with the Hayward Fault which runs from San Pablo Bay to Fremont. It provides the urban centers of Berkeley, Oakland and Hayward.

Experts state there is a single in three possibility of a quake 6.7 or more here within the next 24 years.

“I’m maybe maybe not saying there’s no risk because of liquefaction, but me just what gets the greater risk, I would personally state the densely populated area around the Hayward fault. Continue Reading →