'89 san francisco earthquake

[Edward Vielmetti]

A large earthquake hit the San Francisco bay area at about 5 pm
local time. Many people are hurt, the Bay Bridge is damaged, and
from what I heard on the radio there was a lot of damage.

Phone lines are said to be jammed all over the country -- something
like a million calls in the hour immediately following the event.
Even Michigan Bell tel. was asking people not to make calls now
(even in-state I guess) unless they were absolutely needed.

I've created alt.quake here in the hopes that it will help move
information around in and out of ca. and get an idea of what has
gone on. If you've seen the maps, a fair fraction of the net
lives in california, and I'm more than a bit frightened about
what may have happened to these people.

Anyway, pls. use alt.quake as you see fit.

--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept.

[Eric P. Scott]

In article <15...@netnews.upenn.edu> grob...@grad2.cis.upenn.edu
(Grobbins) writes:
>Can we quickly set up a national earthquake newsgroup?

In article <10...@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> e...@math.lsa.umich.edu

(Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>I've created alt.quake here in the hopes that it will help move
>information around in and out of ca.

We haven't received a newgroup for alt.quakes; your message is
the first I've heard of it.

In any case, there's already a QUAKE-L mailing list;
mail to
LIST...@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Internet) or
LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 (BITNET)
a message with no subject and whose body contains
SUB QUAKE-L Your Full Name
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ adjust accordingly

This was announced to BITNET's NEW-LIST and Internet's Info-Nets
very soon after the media reports.

-=EPS=-