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April 18, 2006
Life : Quake Day
Today (as I suspect a great deal of US media will pick up on) is the 100th anniversary of the "Great" San Francisco Earthquake. Those who live in the SF Bay area have been inundated with coverage of this event for the last week – I suspect most are, like me, already getting a bit tired of it.
I moved to this area just 4 months after the 1989 Loma Prieta quake (the one the broke the Bay bridge, caused those fires in the marina district in SF, and resulted in the collapse of the highway in Oakland where so many lost their lives). As we arrived, the damage was still quite evident as one went driving around. Houses toppled, roads closed because of cracks, etc.
But the bay area has always been resilient – rebuilding and moving on. The media periodically reminds people to have their emergency kits ready, out-of-state contacts coordinated, etc. The next big one is, after all, inevitable (the next little on has already happened – we get a dozen or so small quakes a week – most too small to notice).
Some friend questioned the wisdom of our moving to California; but the way I see it, every area has its "faults". The Southeast gets hurricanes. The Northwest gets blizzards. The Midwest gets tornadoes. We get Earthquakes. So it goes.
Posted by Steven at April 18, 2006 05:12 AM
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"The Northwest gets blizzards."
And, of course, volcanoes :-).
Posted by: Kristen at April 19, 2006 12:40 AM
