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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (72554)	9/20/1999 5:48:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575771

Bill, Ted, 40 miles away is an area of light damage with a quake of 7.5 or so. Older buildings will get cracks, a few will fall. I don't know about that. Loma Prieta in 1989 was a 7.1, and tell it to the people all the way from Santa Cruz to San Francisco that they were in an area of light damage. That's about 70 miles as the crow flies. Now, I'm not saying the whole of that span got hammered, but certain areas, depending on the firmness of the ground under them, like SF's Marina district, were. Los Gatos was also a disaster area, even though there is a mountain range between them and the center. Unfortunately, for Los Gatos, the San Andreas fault connected the dots on the map. Tony

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (72554)	9/20/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575771

Bill RE <<<Ted, 40 miles away is an area of light damage with a quake of 7.5 or so.>>> It depends on the kind of quake it was (up and down vs sideways motion), how long it lasted and how deep in the ground. In the LA quake, areas 12-15 miles from the epicenter were damaged nearly as bad as the epicenter; that was because the fault zone where the quake occurred was only one mile into the ground and the quake moved out from the epicenter in rolling waves. In addition LA's quake was only a 6.8; the one in Taiwan is significantly bigger if the 7.6 magnitude holds up. That in itself will make a big difference in the degree of damage. Like Steve said, we will know more as it becomes daytime over there. And one good thing; like the LA quake it occurred in the early dawn hours. That helped to minimize the numbers injured since most people were in bed. ted