quake! you feel that?
After celebrating Andy’s Birthday tonight (Happy Birthday, Andy!), we had a little 3.7 magnitude earthquake at 10:50pm, centered near Berkeley.. I definitely felt it — it started off slow, kind of like.. wubba-wubba-wubba-wobbly, and then.. BAM, a really hard jolt. It was the biggest quake that I’ve felt in recent memory, and Bailey’s first quake.. Supposedly dogs can feel quakes a lot earlier than we can, but she didn’t seem to notice it until the jolt at the end — I guess trusting her as an early detection device isn’t such a great idea..
Andy pointed out that exactly three years ago, on his birthday, there was a 6.5 magnitude quake… Hmm, I guess something about that day is quake-friendly. I was on my computer at the time, so, of course I immediately did a google search for “earthquake” (and also twittered it). Doug and I were chatting afterwards, and he says “i think google queries for “earthquake” are a pretty good sign of activity.” — which, in turn, made me wonder:
If you were able to get the number of queries for “earthquake” and plot it, with location, on top of a map of the Bay Area, would it look very similar to the shake map above? C’mon — someone at google send me the data*… I’ll make the pretty chart.
* Yah, I know there’s inaccuracies of getting someone’s location by IP and blah blah blah, but still.. I bet someone at google is working on solving that little problem — like they could correlate an IP address or cookie with the most commonly used address that someone puts into google maps when they ask for directions or something… Hmmm.. now we’re talkin’
January 12th, 2007 at 3:31 am
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