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"There comes a still, calm morning when you are sitting at your desk, feeling, 

perhaps a little languid, for the air, though soft and warm, is oppressive, 
and seems in some odd way to have clogged and muffled your vitality.  Your dog 

crosses the room restlessly, yawns, and changes position, and infects you with 

his nervousness.  If a stranger, you attribute these symptoms to the spring 
weather; if an old resident you will find yourself in the attitude of 
expectancy.  Suddenly a slight thrill communicates itself to your desk...."   

Something similar happened to me just this morning as the shock of the Hector 
Earthquake reached my home in Orange County.  Read the log of the conversation 

I was holding with my friend in New York at Eyewitness to Disaster:  
California Earthquakes.

The site also features:  


* A continually updated report about major world earthquakes
* The Modoc Legend of "Earthquake Old Man"
* An article by A.L. Kroeber about Californian Native's earthquake beliefs
* A Wintun explanation of the 1906 earthquake
* Excerpts from articles by Francis Bret Harte about earthquakes
* A list of helpful books available at Amazon.com
* A chronology of California earthquakes
* Eyewitness accounts of California earthquakes, including some submitted by 
readers
* Mark Twain's "Earthquake Almanac"
* Stories and images from the 1906 Great Earthquake and Fire
* And more!

You can visit the site at:

  http://www.notfrisco.com/calmem/earthquake/index.html