or maybe a bit more. But a 4.6 earthquake rolled through here at 0239 in the morning.
As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one awake as Noah told me this morning. Since he is on the top floor, he didn’t hear it coming where as I heard a rumble approaching before the rolling and rattling hit. The Epi Center has been identified as deep under the Claremont Hotel (less than 5 km from our house).

Borrowed from the News
The responsible entity is the Hayward fault with all the usual discussions about us being 10 years overdue for another big one.
A big one that I think will not drop my house into the Pacific (yes, I am immediately west of the fault and I do mean very very close) but rather there will once more be a lovely inland sea from the Rockies to the Appalachian Range. Just think – new ports for cruise ships…..
and speaking of local insanity – here is a post about a dozen garage doors of Berkeley of which I really appreciate the one with the deer since I see somewhere between 2-7 of the stupid creatures every morning just looking to be hood ornaments.
I honestly don’t know if earthquakes or hurricanes are worse. Jeez!
Also, beautiful doors! I thought the Plumber Meditating was cute, but some of these were really pretty!