“Jacob left Beer-sheba and headed toward Charan. He came to a familiar place and spent the night there because the sun had already set. Taking some stones, he placed them at his head and lay down to sleep there. He had a vision in a dream. A ladder was standing on the ground, and its top reached up toward heaven. God’s angels were going up and down on it. Suddenly he saw God standing over him. [God] said, ‘I am God, Lord of Abraham your father, and Lord of Isaac. I will give to you and your descendants the land upon which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth.’ ”
Not ten feet away is the tall, wooded scarp marking the Hayward fault just off Tunnel Road. The homeless person whose camp this is will witness the Big One close up, as will the splendid old Berkeley mansion just up the way.
Oakland Geology 
1 February 2008 at 6:30 pm
from a clinical point of view, losses and suffering aside, it will be specular to watch.
2 February 2008 at 2:23 pm
Just found your beautiful blog by way of scienceblogs and I’m thrilled!
2 February 2008 at 4:29 pm
Thanks, chuck.
Ken, I don’t know how much fun it would be even for me. I think it would feel like being gang-tackled.
5 February 2008 at 6:38 pm
Yes, I think I agree with that, the largest quake ive been though while working out here in the west is a 4.4, didnt even knock my microscope over, but did slosh water around in the water jug. Mildly disturbing to my midwestern senses, on the otherhand, tornado’s dont bother me that much, just a fact of life in the midwest ;)