Reply #17: Yes, I know. I was in Berkeley during the Loma Prieta quake

[EFerrari]

my house slid off of its foundation, downtown Oakland was flattened and the Cypress Structure pancaked (a route I'd used only a week before to commute to work). I had a weekly commitment on the other side of the bay. My 40 minute drive took 2.5 hours each way. And that's a small thing in a much smaller quake. But it took literally years to recover from that one.