Bay Area earthquake is latest warning of high seismic danger in East Bay
Q: What about the Hayward fault?published in 2018 by the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that at least 800 people could be killed and 18,000 more injured in a hypothetical magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault centered below Oakland.
The Hayward fault’s most memorable earthquake in recorded history was in 1868, and is estimated to have been a magnitude 6.8 earthquake — rupturing 20 miles of the fault’s length between San Leandro to what is now the Warm Springs neighborhood of Fremont,It killed about 30 people and caused immense property damage, including the collapse of the Alameda County Courthouse’s second floor and heavy damage at the historic Mission San Jose adobe church in southern Fremont.
A map of the Bay Area’s major earthquake faults. Generally speaking, there are seven major fault zones in the region: the Calaveras, Concord-Green Valley, Greenville, Hayward, Rodgers Creek, San Andreas and San Gregorio.The world’s most famous fault, the San Andreas triggered the great 1906 earthquake, estimated to be a magnitude 7.
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