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Sat Oct 18 21:18:35 UTC 2014

How widespread were the effects on backbone communication circuits from those quakes? 

On October 18, 2014 3:22:58 PM EDT, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
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>On Oct 19, 2014, at 2:20 AM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>> You should restate the "predates"; I was on console on
>earthquake.berkeley.edu at the time Loma Prieta let go, using among
>other things (then) Forumnet (now) ICB in a chat, and one of the
>immediate damage indications was that everyone at UC Santa Cruz dropped
>offline.
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>…and I was one of those people at UCSC, who had an interesting little
>adventure driving home to Berkeley the next day.
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>Also, there are probably people in Northridge and Napa who might
>dispute your definition of “major,” but yes,a	 I take your point.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Baja_California_earthquake
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_South_Napa_earthquake
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>                                -Bill

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