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Bill Freeman wrote:

Radio reports are but it was shaking a five story
building two feet left and right  was 100 miles
away to the West.

It was a Seven near Landers in the desert and felt in
Tonopah Arizona and and  Las Vegas Nevada.

Paul Lamar

I saw the reports this AM in TV.  Wondered whether if affected
you.  Any damage?  I know quite a bit of planning and design
goes into making things quake resistant, but the idea make me
nervous.  The ground hold quite still here in Kansas, except when
the tornadoes come thru - of course!  :-)

Hope all is well.

BTW, my brother told me that Mike Melville got the Kincheloe this
year for his work on the Proteus.

Bill

What was gratifying to me is the post and beam studio I designed 
did not fall down around me while I sat there typing on the computer :-)
It was not built to code. I kind of used aircraft wood box
spar techniques in the main beam and boxed in all other
walls/shear panels with plywood. The posts are reverse cantalevered 
out  of the main box beam. Sort of like a table.

There were a bunch of pole transformers
shorted out and a passenger train jumped the tracks but
other than that the damage was minimal. The epicenter was
a ways out in the desert.

BTW don't go up in any high rise buildings in LA as most
of the steel structure in most buildings is cracked from 
past earthquakes. They are still in the process of patching  
them but this is no place for high rise buildings.

Paul Lamar
 
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