Hi Barbara. The link is to a report done in 1996 and it wasn’t pretty then so it’s going to be even less pretty now because of the increase in population in the area over the last 9 years. Take Care…Don in creepy town

“The report said the worst impact on housing in the Bay Area would come if the entire Hayward Fault broke all at once -- from San Pablo Bay to the Santa Clara County line. In such a quake, at least 80,000 homes and apartments would be uninhabitable in Alameda County, an additional 40,000 would be destroyed in San Francisco, 13,500 in Santa Clara County, and thousands of others elsewhere in the region, the report predicted.”

“The northern segment of the Hayward Fault stretches between San Pablo Bay and southern Oakland, and if that segment alone should break, then nearly 90,000 homes and apartments would become uninhabitable through the Bay Area, according to the report. More than 75,000 homes and apartments would be just as severely damaged if only the fault's southern segment -- from southern Oakland to the Santa Clara County line -- ruptured, the report said.”

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/04/24/MN67675.DTL

• Hayward Fault