At the time of the Landers/Big Bear earthquake, we were living in Upland in San Bernardino County. The Landers quake awakened us early, but it was nothing like the Sylmar quake for us as we had no damage. So my husband, who had an early tee time, left shortly afterward to play golf at a course in San Bernardino. When the Big Bear quake struck later that morning, he was getting ready to putt out on a green. He could see the wave coming down the hills behind the course and then the green undulating when the wave passed through. He'd never seen anything like it.

Yes, Cathryn, my husband felt both the Sylmar quake and the Loma Prieta quake. When the Loma Prieta quake struck, he was in a motel in Alameda just getting ready for work (again -- just like the Sylmar quake). He builds highways and airfields for a living and he was working on a night job up in the Bay area, hence getting ready for work in the late aftn. In the weeks after the quake, he was then bidding some portion of the job to rebuild the freeway.

Then in July(?) 1990, he was living in a high-rise condo in Manila running a company over there doing highway work on Panay for U.S.A.I.D. when a 7.8 earthquake struck on the island of Luzon, which gave Manila a good shaking. It was followed a year later by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991. And, once again, he was bidding work due to nature's forces, only this time, it was to repair volcano-related destruction at Clark Air Base.

The eathquake in Indonesia in the last week seems eerily reminiscent of the pre-eruption earthquake in the Philippines in 1990. From what I have been reading, it sounds like Mt. Merapi is about to explode and that the earthquake may help to trigger that.

Barbara