Officially dubbed the 2014 South Napa Earthquake, the quake that struck at 3:20 a.m. last August 24th officially marks its one-year anniversary today. The quake only caused minor shaking in San Francisco, however it was a big'un, clocking in at 6.0 on the Richter scale, and causing injuries to about 250 people in greater Napa and Vallejo. The only death directly associated with the earthquake was that of 65-year-old Laurie Anne Thompson who was struck on the head by a falling television. She did not immediately seek medical treatment and died over a week later, on Friday, September 5, of an intracranial hemorrhage.

There was also, as you'll likely remember, much coverage given to the injuries of a 13-year-old boy, Nicholas Dillon, who was sleeping on a living room floor and was hurt when a chimney collapsed on top of him. Dillon sustained a broken pelvis and was told it could take him six months before he'd walk again, but as the Napa Valley Register reported back in February, it only took him two and a half months. As of February, he was already practicing soccer again.

Damages from the quake were initially estimate very high, with as much as $1 billion in damages for Napa County itself, and to the local wine industry, including losses of hundreds (or thousands) of barrels of wine, topped $83 million.

The quake is thought to have occurred on the West Napa Fault, however as this article explains, the faults systems in the North Bay are complicated, and which fault was at fault is actually still unclear.

As we learned back in November, in addition to the high probability of a significant rupture along the Hayward Fault in the East Bay in the coming years or decades, the Rodgers Creek and Green Valley Fault systems in Solano County, which may have been involved in the Napa quake last year, could also produce earthquakes in the range of 7.1 magnitude, or as large as Loma Prieta or a bit larger.

Let this be your umpteenth reminder to get an earthquake kit together so that, at the very least, you feel prepared when the next significant quake hits. A propos of nothing, we've had quite a few small quakes on a few different faults since April, all of which have hopefully been good reminders too.

Previously: 6.0 Earthquake Hits Near Napa, 120 Injured