From the personal blog of a friend of mine, Tom Mangan, at work — The San Jose Mercury News:
… First words out of my mouth: “Looks like we’re going into Page One.” Not that anybody had to be told.
The quake rattled the newsroom long enough and hard enough to send our news-detection meters into the red. At first we had no idea how bad things were: we could’ve been just down the road from a minor earthquake, or a hundred miles from one that flattened a small city.
Fortunately, it was the former: a magnitude 5.6 quake on the Calaveras Fault, within a mile of where we used to live in the hills east of town. …
Willow Glen resident Catherine Kilkenny gets under a table during an earthquake on October 30, 2007 in San Jose. Earthquake was a 5.6 magnitude, with the epicenter located 5 miles NNE of Alum Rock, 7 miles east of Milpitas. It was the strongest Bay Area earthquake since Loma Prieta in 1989. (Richard Koci-Hernandez / Mercury News)
Rick McCharles 