Thanks for the personal note of concern. Earthquakes make huge news, but if you follow accounts of more mundane disasters like weather, weather, and weather, you'll find that on balance a hefty wind creates a lot more chaos and carnage than a modest tectonic stress relief.
Today's 'seismic event' was reported as high as 5.8, currently reduced to 5.4 with an epicenter about 10 - 15 miles east of my data center. Because of the logarithmic nature of the Richter Scale, that difference of .4 is very significant. We suffered no damage at all in the data center to any platform, mainframe or otherwise. There were a few electricity disruptions in our service area, limited and short lived. My favorite quote on the event, heard widely on local radio and TV, captures the grist with tinge of dark humor: "People have forgotten, I think, what earthquakes feel like," said Kate Hutton, a seismologist at Caltech. "So I think we should probably look at it as an earthquake drill. ... It's a drill for the `Big One' that will be coming some day." http://www.newser.com/article/D927Q6CO0.html . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barbara Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To Sent by: IBM [email protected] Mainframe cc Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: Wow! Rockin' & Rollin' & the Mainframe Stayed Up! 07/29/2008 09:54 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> >Maybe we'll get better updates as the members chime in...There is a reason >we do those DR drills for sure! Basically the first thing I thought this morning when I heard about the earth quake was: Now, how did Skip and SCE do? Didn't know about these gyro plates. And slept through the only minor earth quake in the Frankfurt area, too! Regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
