Man I don't even remember that compared to the big party in '89:
There are a few spots in the Santa Cruz mountains where one can take about a 5 minute hike off the road can see the fault valley tracing a practically straight line north. If it weren't for haze one could probably see the ocean some 40-odd miles away.
First time I saw the fault valley I didn't realize what it was, just wondered how a natural valley could be so straight.
Then it dawned on me.
Couldn't find any good Google Images, one'd think they'd be plentiful, but this is the closest thing I could find:
I was kind of surprised to find out the "Ridgecrest Quake" wasn't along the San Andreas, and in any case, locally, the experts say it's our Hayward fault that's long overdue for something similar to the Loma Prieta in intensity:
Somehow one just doesn't think the lightning could strike twice in one's life, but there it is, and I work right on top of that sucker.
I was in the Navy at the time stationed in Japan. My mother told me she came home form work walked in the door and watch the stuff in the china cabinet shake and break. Living in Cali as long as I did I felt more that a few quakes.