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There were 67 earthquakes in California in the 24-hour period ending at 4 a.m. Tuesday.

The closest to the Valley was 45 miles away as the drone flies near Milpitas in the East Bay

It happened at 7:05 p.m. Monday.

Even though it was a shallow quake originating from 4.2 miles below the surface, no human felt it due to it being just 1.1 on the Richter Scale. Of the 67 quakes, 64 were below 2.0 meaning no human could feel them.

The other three were not much above 2.0. It meant there was a chance someone could have thought they felt the earth move, but probably dismissed it as being nothing.

Live long enough in California, and you will actually feel an earthquake.

The Golden State is not only by far the most seismically active state in the continental United States averaging nearly 15,000 a year, but it where the Pacific and Northern American tectonic plates pass each other at a snail pace of a couple of inches a year.

Some geologists note that is about how much your fingernails will grow in a year’s time if they go unclipped and don’t break.

Last week was the statewide Great Shakeout Drill that roughly one in four Californians participated in at 10:16 a.m. on Oct. 16.

For one minute, they did the “drop, cover, and hold on” routine that is the drill that keeps injuries and deaths to a minimum.

Running outside may sound like the thing to do, but dealing with falling bricks and other building materials as well as breaking glass accelerates the odds of you being more than just shaken up a bit.

On Oct. 17, of course, was the 36th anniversary of the last major Bay Area earthquake, the Loma Prieta trembler that was broadcast live to the nation as it hit at 5:04 p.m., minutes before the start of the third game of the World Series at Candlestick Park between the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s.

The quake lasted between 8 and 15 seconds depending upon where you were, killed 67, injured 3,757, triggered upwards of 4,000 landslides, pancaked the double deck Nimitz freeway in Oakland, and did the equivalent of $15.2 billion in today’s dollars.

Jack and Gail Vaughn, friends who are diehard Giants fans, had scored seats several rows back behind home plate.

The power was knocked out plus Candlestick sustained structural damage forcing the cancellation of the game.

Due to bridges being closed, it took them almost 12 hours to return to their home in Pleasant Hill near Concord.

Their experience underscores why anyone who commutes or ventures to the Bay Area should do so on a full tank of gas, plus have things such as extra water, snacks, a blanket and even a flashlight stashed in their vehicle.

You never know when one of those 15,000 or so annual California quakes are going to be in the  6.0 and up range where earthquakes reach a level of strength that that they start inflicting  serious damage.

Quakes are still a concern if you don’t venture far from the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

Loma Prieta in 1989 was felt throughout the Valley.

It was strong enough to slosh water out of swimming pools and cause some quakes in pools.

One of the closest fault lines to Turlock is the Vernalis Fault.

It starts near Dairy Road south of Highway 132 in Stanislaus County. It then runs north eventually paralleling Kasson Road as it passes Jimmy’s One Stop near the Airport Way bridge and the nearby 450-home San Joaquin River Club and past the shuttered Deuel Vocational Institute prison.

The fault ends near the Old River northeast of Tracy and northwest of River Islands at Lathrop.

The United States Geological Survey ranks it as one of the 500 most active faults out of the 15,700 known faults in California.

That said, it hasn’t gotten much attention because of its low level of seismic activity.

There are three other nearby faults.

The Tracy-Stockton fault runs under Stockton.

It had significant shaking in 1881 and again in 1940. The epicenter of the quakes were in Linden with the 1940 event being 4.0 on the Richter scale.

The San Joaquin fault runs along the base of the Coastals from Newman to east of Tracy.

The third is the Corral Hollow fault a geologist discovered in 1991.

That fault is southwest of Tracy and generally runs up the canyon of the same name.

Few faults are actually found in the Central Valley. That’s because the forces shaping California are found in the volcanic forged Sierra and the tectonic plates.

Keep in mind “active” is a relative concept when it comes to earthquakes and volcanoes.

The Long Valley Caldera — identified as one of California’s most active volcanoes, as well as the largest, is about 200 miles east of Manteca just south of Highway 120 on the way to Benton — last erupted 750,000 years ago.

In comparison, Mt. Lassen in northeast California last erupted in 1917.

The San Andreas fault is in the high end of active faults while Vernalis is in the lower end.

That means in Turlock and other Valley communities you will likely feel shaking from a quake along the  San Andreas fault 60 miles to the west more than once in your lifetime yet never any movement along the Vernalis fault during the same time frame.