I am disappointed in Pat Leahy. The good senator from Vermont and I probably agree on more issues than disagree. But we do disagree on his Protect Intellectual Property Act, also known as PIPA. You may have heard of PIPA, or its more notorious House counterpart, SOPA. Many notable web sites have gone dark or [...]
Some jarring footage out of Lorca, Spain, from the 11th of May: One of the persistent scenarios that has come up when talking about earthquakes is what to do if you happen to be walking down a sidewalk and surrounded by buildings. If you’re inside a building, you should take cover under a sturdy desk [...]
The house two doors down from ours burned this morning. Alisa woke up thinking that someone was walking in our fenced yard in the pre-dawn darkness. A minute or two later, we smelled the scent of campfire and burnt rubber, then heard a woman’s voice in the darkness calmly talking to a 911 operator. She [...]
They’ve made the rounds, but in case you missed them, here are a few wedding photos taken during and just after the earthquake. More here.
Gray skies are a common feature of many photos coming from Sichuan. Word is that it’s been raining. The destruction that follows an earthquake’s shaking is often the result of fire. San Francisco in 1906 is the classic example: in much of the city, whatever the shaking didn’t break later went up in flames. The [...]
Hard times around the globe these days. Earthquake in China. Cyclone in Burma. Tornados in the U.S. An enormous volcano on the verge of collapse in Chile. Over the past several months, I’ve been working on a story about a possible earthquake here in the Bay Area. One thing I’ve learned is starkly visible in [...]
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