Bored of killer mountain lions and Mad Cow mania, local news media have found the perfect timing for the next big scare: Predictions that another big one will hit by September.
It's the tenth anniversary of the magnitude- 6.7 earthquake that stunned Northridge and all of L.A. -- and earthquake experts say they're taking seriously predictions that a shaker of at least magnitude 6.4 will hit the southern San Andreas Fault by Sept. 5.
Nice. Hmm. Perhaps time to put the home search on hold. At least until Sept. 6.
According to the Daily News, The prediction of UCLA seismologist and mathematical geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok, who is known to colleagues as a "big shot in our field," is viewed as credible because last June his team predicted the magnitude-6.5 San Simeon Earthquake that occurred Dec. 22 and the magnitude-8.1 Hokkaido, Japan, earthquake of Sept. 25.
I was braving the freezing cold in Rockford, Illinois, when the big one hit, serving out a Northwestern/Medill School of Journalism "teaching newspaper" internship at the Rockford Register Star. (I didn't move to L.A. until June 1996).
Maria, meanwhile, lived through it in Chatsworth, and promises to recount her experiences later. A close friend of Maria's actually lived in the collapsed Northridge Meadows Apartment complex, in which 16 people died. Luckily, she came out OK.
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