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The tremor struck just 6km (3.7 miles) off the coast of Colma, just south of San Francisco, on Saturday morning, according to the US Geological Service. An earthquake of this magnitude is strong enough to cause minor damage, but typically results in only shaking and rattling of objects indoors.
It's not just the living that were disturbed from their sleep. Colma, the town closest to the epicenter, is home to more than 1.5 million dead bodies. Founded as a necropolis in 1924, the dead outnumber the living in Colma by nearly a thousand to one.
"It can only be the dead rising and the zombie apocalypse starting," one commenter joked. Another referred to the quake as "a real bone shaker."
Though Saturday's quake was relatively minor, California has been hit with a bevy of similar tremors in recent days. At least five quakes registering between 2 and 2.9 magnitude struck the Bay Area on Tuesday, and eight quakes of magnitude 3.0 and higher were recorded further inland near Ridgecrest.
According to some scientists, the San Andreas fault, which passes through San Francisco, is overdue a shake-up. The most devastating earthquake along the fault occurred in 1906 in San Francisco. At least 3,000 people died in the estimated magnitude 7.8 quake and subsequent fires.
Excerpt from the 437th Contact of Saturday, November 18, 2006 from the Pleiadian-Plejaren Contact Reports, Block 11 book, pages 52-53. German to English translation by Larry Driscoll December 14, 2013
Billy : Then to something other. With Quetzal I was in fact at the great quake in California, respectively in San Francisco which already is overdue. Have you some new information to offer, or does it remain as Quetzal has already said to me about this, that the earthquake in the near future is to be expected and that in human thinking it will be the greatest natural catastrophe ever?* In fact, the quake will not only affect San Francisco, but also Los Angeles, San Diego and various other places in the surrounding area. And Quetzal has said, that it is possible that the seaside part of the Andreas Fault will tear off, as a result of which a long, drawn out island is created.
Ptaah : 46. You have seen the enormous destruction in the future which however only relates to the initial potential.47. The total will however be much worse, if the great quake occurs at the same time as the one which Quetzal has named to you.Billy Therefore, everything remains as per prediction and by that, as I have seen it at the time through the travel into the future.
Information herein submitted to you describes the future San Francisco Earthquake, see 104th and 106th Contact Excerpts, a potential for a Greater California Earthquake, see 437th Contact Excerpt and as well, a future Off The Coast Of Oregon Seaquake, see 392nd Contact Excerpt. -[Link]