Major California Faults Ready To Rupture | IFLScience

Sat Oct 18 22:42:59 UTC 2014

Nothing that I recall.  Sean might know better. 

                -Bill

> On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:19, "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
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> How widespread were the effects on backbone communication circuits from those quakes? 
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>> 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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