About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Living in Earthquake Country Archive
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6.9 Quake in Honshu — Tokyo is fine
Posted on July 23, 2008 | No CommentsThere was a 6.9 quake late tonight, 300 miles away in northeastern Honshu. We felt some very light shaking just before going to bed, but we’re fine. -
AP: Scientists: Big Quake Likely in Calif.
Posted on April 15, 2008 | No CommentsAssociated Press: LOS ANGELES (AP) — California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said in the first statewide temblor forecast. New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will... -
The Big One is coming
Posted on October 18, 2007 | No CommentsHoo boy, maybe it’s time to get our earthquake kit in order. SJ Mercury News: Studying layers of soil in a trench they dug near the Fremont BART station, geologists recently made a startling discovery: The Hayward Fault has had a big earthquake roughly every... -
Quake in Oaktown?
Posted on July 20, 2007 | No CommentsI just read that there was an earthquake about two hours ago in Oakland. I assume that everyone is ok? -
Quake!
Posted on March 1, 2007 | No CommentsThere was just an earthquake 12 miles from my house. Update: The San Francisco Chronicle is on it: (03-01) 21:06 PST — A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 hit one mile northeast of Lafayette at 8:40 p.m. tonight. Various police and fire departments... -
Racism in Oakland, 1906
Posted on April 18, 2006 | No CommentsBut many San Franciscans left the city permanently. Oakland’s population doubled to 150,000 between 1900 and 1910, spurred by the earthquake and developers Francis “Borax” Smith and Frank Havens. There was also a big jump in population in Marin and on the Peninsula. All these... -
One Hundred Years Ago
Posted on April 18, 2006 | No CommentsThe year was 1906, and the citizens of San Francisco must have found it a wildly incongruous sight–grown men at child’s play in the midst of tragedy. Less than three weeks before, the earth had shaken and the city had burned. The disaster began with... -
South Park, 1906
Posted on January 14, 2006 | 1 CommentIn 2006, Paul Boutin and I often lunch together here, in South Park, San Francisco, just across the street from the Macworld offices. In 1906, the same area was used as a refugee camp after it was leveled during the Great Earthquake. [via MeFi.] Whoa. -
“If you live in the Bay Area, you will experience the affects of a major earthquake in your lifetime.”
Posted on September 9, 2005 | No CommentsI was catching up on some The Party Line reading this morning when I caught the links to two articles from the East Bay Express written in February 2005 about the possibility and aftermath of a massive quake in the Bay Area. Remember the FEMA... -
Four earthquakes in a week?
Posted on June 17, 2005 | No CommentsLA Times: A 4.9 magnitude earthquake centered in San Bernardino County rattled a large section of Southern California on Thursday, the third significant temblor to hit the state in less than a week. While the quake did not cause major injuries or damage, it shook...
