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San Jose Earthquakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (582 words) |
 | San Jose Earthquakes was also the name of the North American Soccer League (NASL) team that played from 1974 to 1984 (although the team was named the Golden Bay Earthquakes from 1983 to 1984) and in the Western Soccer Alliance from 1985 to 1988. |
| The last owner of the Earthquakes, Anschutz Entertainment Group, announced on December 15, 2005 that the team was moving to Houston for the 2006 season. |
| The NASL Earthquakes opening game in 1974 was immediately preceded by a short concert by Queen, who had been commissioned by the owner of the team to write a theme song for the fledgling soccer team. |
| In the Fault Zone: How Earthquakes Shape the Bay Area (4251 words) |
| The 1906 earthquake ruptured the surface along a 270-mile length of the San Andreas Fault, including here on a hillside outside the town of Olema in west Marin, where noted biologist Alice Eastwood examines the "mole track" produced by the tremendous lateral force of the quake. |
| Their observations that earthquakes are a repetitive feature in Northern California, that the San Andreas Fault—or “Rift” as they called it—is a continuous feature running virtually the length of the state, and that the two flanks of the fault move horizontally rather than vertically, were new to science at that time. |
| Earthquake hazards geologist Mary Lou Zoback and her colleagues at the USGS have studied the history of temblors in the Bay Area and found that during the 70 years before 1906 the region sustained 18 destructive quakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater. |
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