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...Obviously the quake was a drawback," concedes Katherine August of First Republic Bancorp, which specializes in loans for luxury homes. "But I don't think it will have a lasting effect on the market. We closed one deal the day after the quake." Says pollster Mervin Field: "Sure it shook people up. But look at the World Series game that was interrupted at Candlestick Park. A few minutes after the quake, you had 58,000 people chanting 'Play ball! Play ball...
...This one's subterranean birth pangs had persisted for decades, attended only by seismologists helplessly unable to pinpoint when calamity would strike. When its punch was finally delivered, it was measured at 6.9 on the Richter scale, a force not recorded in the U.S. since the 9.2 quake that shook Alaska...
...matter how blase Californians pretend to be about earthquakes, this one shook that faxade. Lisa Sheeran, a public relations manager, picked up a rental car in Colma, just off the San Andreas fault. As she opened one of the doors, the vehicle bounced up and down. "What's wrong with this car?" she asked. The rental agent shrugged and said, "I don't know." Then both watched a wave of undulating earth approach them from a graveyard at the bottom of a hill. It reminded her of the ghostly movie Alien...
...first light of what would have been a lovely day. A dreadful howling sound shattered the dawn, as the earth suddenly rumbled, vibrated, heaved and pitched, wobbling in a demonic dance. "The whole street was undulating," recalled police sergeant Jesse Cook. The quake shook the city, in words that became folklore, like a "terrier shaking...
...shuddering pandemonium abruptly ended in an uncanny stillness "almost as awesome as the dreadful sound of the quake," William Bronson relates in The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned. Dazed men still in nightclothes stumbled out of dwellings along with women holding babies. The air was powdery. Many streets had gaping fissures. Few residents could get any idea of the extent of what had happened. People milled about, as an observer put it, "like speechless idiots." Beyond view, the injured and trapped began to cry out, and gradually the able-bodied undertook rescues...