Eeeeeeearthquaaaaaaaaake

I'll start off by defusing the headline, there has not been a big earthquake here since I got here. But that being said, that does not mean that there has not been any earthquakes in the Bay Area. In fact, by lunch today, there had been more than 50 earthquakes in the Bay Area just this week (since Monday, the week starts with Sunday here)... That is close to one per hour. The Bay Area is a seismically active area, and smaller earthquakes are quite common. Small is a relative term of course, none of the ones I've seen tracked this week has scored over 2.0 on the Richter scale, and as can be seen on the map below, most have hit further north. But for an seismically inactive area that would be quite a lot, if memory serves the one that hit Umeå last year was about 3.4? A better measurement might be this; since I got here there has been at least a couple hundred earthquakes and I can't honestly say I've noticed any of them. Ground shaking news? Not really. Map courtesy of the US Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program.

Ps. Tomorrow is my first official day of work over here, looking forward to it! :-)