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No, you didn't dream it! There was a 4.2 temblor this morning at around 4:42 a.m., centered two miles east of Oakland on the dreaded Hayward Fault. It knocked out power in Oakland (poor PG&E, it's been a busy week), and broke the windows of the Safeway on Shattuck and Rose in Berkeley, and at a doughnut shop on College and Ashby (but with no interruption in donut service, they added) -- but in SF, we didn't notice anything other than some shaking, and in San Jose, they didn't feel anything at all.

Just in time to calm everyone down after the Hawaii earthquake, San Francisco officials released their plans for dealing with the next big earthquake. The plan is actually a "supplement" to the "all hazards" emergency operations plan and what kind of hazards are they expecting us to have to deal with? Is there something else we should know about? And do any of those plans involve giant lizard like creatures coming out of the ocean to stomp buildings?