The Loma Prieta Quake of '89

The Loma Prieta Quake of '89
Tuesday, October 17, 1989

At 5:04 PM, I was lying on my bed in the house we had rented earlier that year just down the hill from UC Santa Cruz, with my keyboard in front of me as I was dialed in to a machine at the university. Then the house started to shake...

For a description of my and others' earthquake experiences, see these posts

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Distant Smoke {My first hint [...]}	Liz' Room {Poor Liz! And [...]}	Dierdre's Room	John's Room {Somehow, the [...]}
Bed End {This is where I [...]}	Bookshelves {That's Mugi in [...]}	Bathroom Cabinets	Laurel Street {Liz, Marlo and I [...]}
Ruptured Pavement {This is the [...]}	Water Escaping {A broken water [...]}	Burning House 1 {The source of [...]}	Burning House 2
House Off Foundation	Collapsed Chimney {This is the same [...]}	Cimarelli's Plumbing {Cimarelli's [...]}	Donatello's
SC Glass Co. {Looking through [...]}	Liz & Marlo {The rest of the [...]}	Upper Crust {The “PIZZA [...]}	Ford's Dept. Store {The side of [...]}
Liquor Store {This was the [...]}	Haber's Furniture {Note that the [...]}	Burning House 3 {We passed by [...]}	Qarin's Room {We've come back [...]}
Party at Cameron's {The night of the [...]}	Suck & Blow {Later someone [...]}	Armory BBQ {The day after [...]}	Building Damage 1
Cooper House {The much-beloved [...]}	Mall Crowd {The Pacific [...]}	SC Coffee Roasting Co. {The building in [...]}	Building Damage 2
Boardwalk Flagpole	Boardwalk Arcade 1 {The palm trees [...]}	Boardwalk Arcade 2	House Steps {All that's left [...]}

Salvation Army
{At the Salvation [...]}