Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connolly, 43, an account executive for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Birmingham, Mich., was staying on the tenth floor of the Maria Isabel Sheraton. "The building swayed five or six feet each way. We were holding on to the walls as it went. It would go all the way one way and you'd think it was going over and you'd be dead. Then the next time it would sway all the way the other way and you'd think this time it would crash. Finally it righted itself, and we all ran out on the street." There Connolly...
Nurses gathered outside the remains of the seven-story gynecology-obstetrics wing of General Hospital. "There were 44 beds per floor and 44 cribs," sobbed one. "I had just walked out of there, off the night shift. My friends . . ." She could not continue. There were no known survivors among the 250 people, patients and staff who were thought to have been in the building when it collapsed...
...Acapulco Princess Hotel, Christina Acosta of Miami Beach was celebrating her 24th birthday when she saw the wall of her room "just crack straight down from the ceiling to the floor. The noise was terrible. It was the longest minute and a half of my life. I thought, 'This is it; I made it to 24 and now it's all over.' " When the rocking stopped, the damage was surprisingly small, even though Acapulco was only 150 miles from the epicenter. The radar at the city's airport was knocked out, stranding travelers for a time, and there...
...shallow water. "This swell came up from behind in the water. It didn't knock me down, but it was extraordinary. I looked around and saw there weren't any boats nearby, and I said, 'Where'd that come from?' Then everything was perfectly still." On the 48th floor of the 64-story Transco Tower in Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked out the window at the trees and they were standing still, so I knew the wind wasn't blowing." The tremors...
With irresistible force, the Cocos plate, which forms part of the Pacific floor off Mexico, is pushing northeastward at a rate of 2 to 4 1/2 in. a year against the North American plate, which is creeping westward. As the Cocos plate dips...