Calvin Ogawa (cal@netcom.com) predicted the LA earthquake in a 1/12/94 message on alt.california. "In the past three days, Santa Monica and Los Angeles in general has experienced a swarm of minor earthquakes. ... So get your water and pocket radios ready." [Kurt Foss (kfoss@macc.wisc.edu), CARR-L, 1/17/94.]

Documents to assist natural-disaster survivors may be found on the esusda.gov gopher server. For the LA earthquake, look under Disaster Relief. [Barbara Wilde (wilde@netcom.com), net-hap, 1/17/94.] The IRC #earthquake discussion is archived on http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mengwong/irc.quake.txt. Other news sources are la.general and alt.current-events.la-quake. You can also telnet to well.sf.ca.us to read a good "quake" conference. [Ed Vielmetti (emv@garnet.msen.com), comp.infosystems.www, 1/17/94. Phil Agre.] Authoritative reports are also available from the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, telnet oesl1.oes.ca.gov 5501. [Joshua Kopelman (josh@smtpgw.infonautics.com), alt.internet.services, 1/18/94. net-hap.] Official emergency services gophers are gopher://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca:5555/11/epix/orgs/us/california/oes and gopher://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca:5555/1/. [P. Michael McCulley (mcculley@cerf.net, CARR-L, 1/17/94.] A new Northridge (L.A.) Earthquake Information and Location Center Gopher is delphi.com port 70. Use a gopher client, not telnet. [Jeff Guide (teledata@delphi.com), net-hap, 1/19/94.] Prodigy set up free "Earthquake" and "QuakeChat" channels. [WSJ, 1/18/94. EDUPAGE.] To join the QUAKE-L seismology discussion list, send a "sub quake-l your name" message to listserv@nic.umass.edu. [Kurt Foss (kfoss@macc.wisc.edu), CARR-L, 1/17/94.] For current seismic information, finger quake@geophys.washington.edu. [Phil Agre (pagre@weber.ucsd.edu), RRE, 1/18/94.]

Larry Press (lpress@isi.edu) notes that the earthquake may spur telecommuting: LA's west side (with a high concentration of professionals) has lost its main route to downtown. [1/19/94.]

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