What's shaking -- literally.As someone who has, for his entire existence, lived atop an earthquake fault and in buildings where "insulation" translates to "put on a sweater," the question posed in the headline has come up dozens of times. Was that the San Andreas Fault -- or Sam and Andreas upstairs? Thankfully, however, the United States Geological Survey long ago produced this Web site that definitively reveals whether you'd have been better off ducking under the bed or thumping a broomstick o
Living on the edge -- of the San Andreas FaultThe afternoon of Oct. 17, 1989, is marked for me by one of those brief and intense visual recollections that tend to define childhood memories: A pair of goldfish hovering in the air above their bowl.I was nine years old when the Quake of '89 hit. I grew up on the Monterey Peninsula, and like any native Californian, I'd lived through plenty of earthquakes. Loma Prieta was something else entirely. I was home alone with the family mutt, an affable a
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