Gilroy Quake
The only earthquake I ever heard was one near Gilroy about 10 years ago. I was sitting in my apartment, with my oblivious cat near me, and there was a loud boom - like a sonic boom. A second or so later there was a little rumble. If I remember correctly, it was only about a 3-something on the Richter scale, but I heard the boom first because I was less than 5 miles from the epicenter. Gilroy had a bigger one last night, a 5.2. The US Geological Survey has a cool map of all the recent activity in the area.
- posted by Amy @ 5/14/2002 05:25:00 PM