Rip, Rift and Panic: Life Along the Fault Line
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Much of California breathed a little easier after October 17, 1989.. The Loma Preita earthquake, measuring between 6.9 and 7.l on the Richter scale, meant that the Big One, talked about for decades, had finally happened. And, bad as it was, many had survived.
But there are two things wrong with that.
First, Loma Prieta was not the Big One. It was a moderately big one, definitely destructive to many parts of the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and along the northern California coast. But it was nowhere near the size of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Rip, Rift, and Panic is created from stories and sounds of life and death along the fault lines criss-crossing the Pacific Rim. Voices of Mexico City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, San Francisco, Eureka, and Anchorage tell of fear, flight, and the faith people continue to have in home, and ground. These are ordinary folks, caught in their kitchens, on the freeways, in the workplace, or on the front lines of city services. Theirs are extraordinary tales of rescue and recovery, relief, and disbelief. Life gets edgy along the fault line.
