Monthly Archives: December 2006

Earthquake #3

By | December 23, 2006

Ok, this is getting tedious. It looks like I need to investigate writing some code to automate writing the inital part of these earthquake posts. At 9:21 this morning we had a 3.5 magnitude earthquake at almost the exact same location as yesterday evening’s quake. I was still lying in bed when this one hit.… Read More »

Earthquake #2

By | December 23, 2006

Just two days after our 3.7 temblor, another earthquake just struck tonight at 10:50 pm. This one felt a little weaker at our house, but it had more of a rumbling, rolling character. It seemed to last just over one second, with one loud thump followed quickly by several thumps of diminishing amplitude. It was… Read More »

Earthquake!

By | December 20, 2006

Not a huge quake, but it was pretty close to us. The preliminary USGS report says it was a 3.7 at 7:12 pm 2 miles ESE of Berkeley. The epicenter was very close to the Claremont hotel in Oakland. I felt a couple of thumps over about 2 seconds. There was one relatively strong thump… Read More »

Mad German Cycling Skills

By | December 19, 2006

Not a mad German, actually, but mad skills (I refuse to write skillz, damn it, I just did) demonstrated by a German woman from Universität Würzburg. She performs some amazing stunts while riding a fixie in a gymnasium. I’ve seen guys do some of this stuff on stunt bikes, but I think it’s a lot… Read More »