Southern California Disasters Visited Series

Following four of my father's last five visits to Pasadena from Jackson, Michigan, an earthquake or aftershock occurred shortly after his return home. That's quite a set of coincidences! The last such coincidence occurred in January 1994, and he passed away on May 1. Between May 1 and mid-August 1998 there hasn't been a sizable earthquake in Southern California. Perhaps he wanted me to move back to Michigan more than I cared to realize.

• He departed Pasadena Monday, June 10, 1991, and the Sierra Madre quake, measuring 6.0, hit June 28.
• He and new wife Rosalie departed Pasadena on Monday, May 25, 1992, and two quakes, the Landers and the Joshua Tree, measuring 6.6 and 7.5, respectively, hit the morning of June 28.
• He departed Pasadena November 16, 1992, and an aftershock of the Landers quake, measuring 5.4, hit November 27.
• Dad departed Pasadena on Sunday, December 26, 1993, and less than a month later the Northridge quake hit, measuring 6.8.
• We didn't have a sizable quake after Dad and Rosalie's September 1993 visit, though we did have the fires of autumn (October).

The following, personal experience accounts are presented in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format. If you do not have the freeware Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed on your system, Click here.

• THE 1987 LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE File size: 26 KB
• THE 1991 SIERRA MADRE EARTHQUAKE File size: 19 KB
• A VINDICATION BY HATRED 1992, (One man's account of the costliest civil disturbance in the United States since the Civil War) File size: 22 KB
• SEISMIC SUNDAY/SUMMER 1992 (Joshua Tree, Landers, Mojave) File size: 12 KB
• THE FIRES OF AUTUMN 1993 File size: 16 KB
• THE 1994 NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE File size: 28 KB
• TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT 2007 or THE DISASTER THAT NEARLY WAS File size: 285 KB

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