Tag: Loma Prieta Earthquake Sat, March 13, 2010
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Quake Led to Setting of Santa Cruz ‘Sun’
Oct 15, 2009, by Stephen Kessler Community
It was hard not to take the earthquake personally. That October Tuesday, my newspaper, The Sun, which I had started three years earlier in a surge of journalistic urgency and entrepreneurial folly, was on deadline, preparing to go to press the following morning.
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Santa Cruz Parties Like It’s 1989
Oct 13, 2009, by Traci Hukill Community
Post-quake Santa Cruz wasted no time coming up with irreverent slogans about the disaster it had endured—bumper stickers like “Shift Happens” and “It’s All Our Fault” popped up all over town in the months after Loma Prieta. In the same spirit, the town commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 7.1 monster this weekend by both thumbing our noses at the San Andreas Fault and engaging in some healthy introspection about what exactly happened at 5:04pm on Oct. 17, 1989 and how far we’ve come since.
