About an hour ago I groggily awoke to the shaking of the bed. I looked across to my sleeping companion. No, the tremor wasn’t due to her restlessness. I waited a few seconds: experienced Californians know that sometimes the first shock is just a precursor to something worse. But thankfully all was quiet.The earthquake occurred near Gilroy, 70 miles south of San Francisco. It was 4.7 on the Richter scale, roughly 1/100th the magnitude of the Loma Prieta quake of 1989. Another reminder that it can all be snatched away in the wink of an eye. [Map from the State of California.]
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