San Francisco, 2015.

15 Seconds of Terror

I found this document in an old case in my garage. In light of Friday’s earthquake in southern California, I thought this was timely.

Written October 19, 1989 (two days after the Loma Prieta earthquake) in San Francisco.

Conventional wisdom among experts suggests that the big earthquake should strike within the next 20 or 30 years. I learned shortly after I relocated to San Francisco in 1986 that Californians have…