Earthquake

As you've probably heard, today is the 100th anniversary of The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (I guess that's its official title). Here in the Bay Area we've been inundated with earthquake anniversary stories for the past month. This morning at 5:12, the time of the quake, San Francisco set off sirens to commemorate the moment. There are other events planned throughout the day.

It's interesting hearing the heartfelt commemoriation of this disaster by people who did not experience it and were affected by it in only in a peripheral way, if at all. The rememberance of every other disaster of this magnitude (in the U.S.) seems to be driven by the survivors, and once they're gone, the rememberance dries up.

Speaking of rememberance, my big earthquake experience was the 1989 Loma Preita Earthquake. I wrote about my memories of the quake last year, on its 16th anniversary, here, here, and here.