"Whistling past the graveyard". There's good stuff in John McPhee's Assembling California [1] about the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake, and about earthquakes in gen

"Whistling past the graveyard". There's good stuff in John McPhee's Assembling California [1] about the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake, and about earthquakes in general. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/05/specials/mcphee-california.html http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/05/specials/mcphee-califo...