<p>I find Berkeley a wicked school and I would really love to attend one day, but my mother brought up the topic of earthquakes.
Berkeley is in California, and I have only lived in the Great Plains or Northeastern part of the US. It's pretty much implied the worst I've gone through is some pretty heavy rain and a tiny tornado. </p>
<p>How often does Berkeley get earthquakes?
And, more importantly, are they scary/dangerous?</p>
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<p>Earthquakes? Probably every single day, but we can’t feel 99.99% of them.<br>
The (3.0+) feel like someone’s shaking you a bit…not really dangerous. Most people don’t even notice these 3.0-4.0 earthquakes if they can’t see anything shaking (eg walking to class, go like ‘huh, there was an earthquake?’). </p>
<p>And it’ll probably be approximately 30 years before the big one hits, and by then we’ll all be long gone probably.</p>
<p>Couple of small earthquakes per semester. They’re noticeable (a quick jolt or shake, maybe a small bit of rolling), but not scary. The typical California reaction is “Oh hey, that was an earthquake. Did anybody else feel that?”</p>