On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:45:16 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:46:24 +0200, "Giusi" > wrote:
>
>> >None of us three are supposed to be in that area, which is about an hour
>> >from Rome. Vilco is waaay north of Aquila and I am halfway betweehn Vilco
>> >and the earthquake. That's not to say that one of them might not be on
>> >holiday there. It's a fabulous area. The city is pretty much destroyed and
>> >deaths have reached 90 so far.
>> >
>> The San Francisco quake of '89 was 6.9 and killed 63. We were lucky.
>
>Yes. If the Great SF quake of '89 had actually happened in SF, who
>knows what the death and destruction would have been? It occurred 75
>miles south of SF (almost a two hour drive), in a large park about the
>size of SF, which park in turn is located in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah, yeah, I know where the epicenter was. We were lucky.

Here's what Wiki says about it.

Given the distance between the quake's epicenter and some of the
worst-hit areas, geologists were surprised at the severity of the
resulting damage. Subsequent analysis indicated that the damage was
due to the amplification of the earthquake's Seismic waves by waves
reflecting off the deep (about 24 km(15 miles)) discontinuities in the
Earth's surface.

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