[PRCo] Re: Quake & Bake

[Herb Brannon]

The SF Cronicle headline that evening was "ROLLERQUAKE" spread all over the front page in tall letters. It was the quake which did a lot of damage to a government facility of some type at Livermore, CA. I was in a frame house on Deloris Street. My buddy from Pgh (who moved to CA) lived there. We were waiting for two girls to get there. They were on the streetcar on Market Street coming to Deloris St. The young ladies told us about the trolley tracks and I experienced the house swaying back and forth as I made my way down the long hallway from the kitchen to the front door............hopefully to get to the "safety" of the door frame. It stopped when I arrived at the doorframe. 
   
  The earthquake, however, was on January 24, 1980 and centered 10 miles NW of Livermore. It registered 5.8 on the Richter Scale. It was what is called a "rolling earthquake" and causes things to sway and bend then return to their original shape. Check it out............I was there. Also, I will never go there again. There is no escape other than having a hot-air ballon standing by in your yard. After that I knew why Enrico Caruso never returned after his performance at the Opera House in April, 1906.
Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote: 
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We had tremors in the late 1970s and early 1980s but not an earthquake.
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Herb Brannon