Edited by author 03-13-2001 11:03 PM
This Quick Topic arose from the "Rattle in Seattle" page published by Gaelic Wolf in the aftermath of the Seattle earthquake of February 28, 2001. That site's currently enduring a 'Net "flash crowd" so it loads real slowly as I write this. There's now an article about it on ABCNews.com as well (though who knows how long it'll be up on their site). It's well worth a read for additional interesting background -- particularly the conspiracy theorists'!

At any rate, there was some discussion of this event on Keith Dawson's (the noteworthy impresario of Tasty Bits from the Technology Front, which can be found at http://www.tbtf.com) private "TBTF Irregulars" email-list, to which I have the privilege of belonging. Items 2, 3, and 4 in this Topic were originally distributed on that list, and are reposted here with the authors' permission.