Tuesday, June 30, 2015

[californiadisasters] From the ashes: Artists create teahouse in Griffith Park with wood from 2007 fire



From the ashes: Artists create teahouse in Griffith Park with wood from 2007 fire

Carolina A. Miranda

Los Angeles Times
June 30, 2015 5:13 p.m.

The invitation was cryptic. A small piece of wood with a laser-burned message that read, "June 30, 2015. Please join us for tea and wishes overlooking the city. Sunrise, Griffith Park." 

The only other instructions directed recipients to meet at the Griffith Observatory parking lot at dawn and "follow the lights."

So at 5 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a time when the freeways are largely empty and the sky is still the color of ink, I find myself at the Observatory parking lot with nearly three dozen other people, all responding to the same invitation.

A secret artist-built teahouse in Griffith Park

Tiffany Williams pours tea for Stacey Abarbanel, Karin Huebner and Michele Raitano at an artist-built teahouse that was built overnight in Griffith Park. Constructed surreptitiously by an anonymous collective of artists, it was inaugurated on Tuesday morning with tea, cookies and opera. 

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

On the north end of the parking lot, we find an arrangement of ceramic teacups each bearing an LED candle. Each guest is given a cup, along with a small map on vellum emblazoned with the profile of a griffin. A red line marks a path that zigs then zags up the flanks of Mt. Hollywood, past Dante's view, before coming to rest on Mt. Bell, to the northeast.

Our destination is the Griffith Park Teahouse, a diminutive wood structure, loosely inspired by Japanese architecture, which did not exist until Monday night when it was surreptitiously installed by a loose collective of artists.

Tuesday morning's mission was to inaugurate the pavilion — which offers breathtaking views of the Verdugos and the San Gabriels, not to mention the 5 Freeway — with an informal tea ceremony and a performance by an opera singer. Invited to the event were friends and acquaintances of the artists (who rarely get permission from official channels to do their work and prefer to remain anonymous).

Around 5:15 a.m., as the blackness of the sky gave way to steely grays streaked with bits of orange, the group ascended the mountain, past the Hollywood sign and the blinking lights of Los Angeles, up a narrow horse trail, to the teahouse, an 80-square-foot structure made from singed pieces of wood reclaimed from trees burned in the devastating 2007 Griffith Park fire.

Three at a time, people entered the teahouse, where they were served green tea and almond cookies, and where an attached bell was occasionally rung. In the distance, just out of sight, the opera singer arpeggioed.

"It's just lovely," says Ghassan Sarkis, a math professor at Pomona College who attended the ceremony draped in a web of LED lights. "It jolts you out of the grooves of daily life."

Sipping tea
Caption Sipping tea
Al Seib / Los Angeles Times

Williams, left, pours tea for Stacey Abarbanel, Karin Huebner and Michele Raitano, seated left to right. The teahouse was designed with the aid of experienced woodworkers and bolted to an abandoned foundation inside Griffith Park. 

The invitation to the opening of the Griffith Park Teahouse, a Japanese style structure surreptitiously installed in Griffith Park by an anonymous collective of artists, came in the form of this laser-burned piece of wood.

The ceremony is over, but the Griffith Park Teahouse remains ... for now. Perched on a ridge, within view of several mountain ranges, the artists have left it behind as "a gift" to Los Angeles — one they hope the city will accept.

"Part of the experiment is seeing how the park and the public reacts," says one of the core artists who masterminded the plan — a young woman who has worked on installation design at various Southern California museums. "There's something interesting about observing what will happen."

Certainly, this is no flimsy structure. The teahouse was made with the help of professional wood craftsmen who helped develop the building's design and engineering. The entire thing was slipped into the park in pre-fabricated pieces and bolted to an old foundation that at one point likely belonged to a utility shack, but had since been reduced to an exposed wedge of concrete and rebar.

"I saw it about six years ago," explains the collective's ringleader, whose day job is in the film industry. "I come to the park to run a lot — and I would just see it and I kept thinking we could do something with it."

This isn't the first time the group has staged a guerrilla act in a public space. They once held a tea party for friends on a traffic island in downtown L.A. and installed a vending machine full of scented chip bags on a street in Silver Lake.

"The idea of a teahouse rose to the fore early on," he adds. "I'm a big fan of tea ... and I'd looked at teahouse design books and I happened to visit Japan during this time, where I spent a lot of time looking at temples."

A griffin for Griffith Park

The teahouse is decorated with a hand-carved image of a mythological griffin. In honor of Los Angeles, it is part red-tailed hawk (common to the area) and part mountain lion (like P-22, the famous mountain lion spotted in the area). The creature is shown wearing a tracking collar.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

The pair roped in a friend, a woodworking apprentice who had, quite coincidentally, helped design a wooden teahouse in Washington state. He helped connect them to a professional woodworker in the Glendale area who helped refine the group's initial design concept.

Six months ago, they got to work. The idea was to build their teahouse entirely out of reclaimed wood: trees that were killed in the 2007 blaze (many of which the group harvested from the area around the Greek Theatre), as well as felled redwoods that were destined to be mulched at the park's composting facility. (The park has removed redwoods in recent years since they are not native to the area and require a lot of water.)

"The entire design came from the amount of wood we had," says the woodworking apprentice. "Decisions were entirely based on the availability of the materials."

Adds the ringleader: "We didn't cut anything down. We only took what was already dead and on the ground."

The resulting structure features a slat roof inspired by Japanese lines, as well as strategically placed windows that frame views of the city and the mountains. A bell, attached to the structure, can be rung ceremoniously (or just for fun).

And in the eaves, they put a quirky finishing touch: a bas relief carving of a griffin, the supernatural bird-lion creature of ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern mythology. In this case, the griffin is rendered as part red-tailed hawk (since the park has a lot of these) and part P-22, the famous Griffith Park mountain lion. The carving even shows the griffin with a tracking collar around its neck.

The young woodworker says he was incredibly moved to see the finished product sitting on top of the mountain.

"Walking up here and seeing the morning light on it," he says in a hushed tone, "it was sooo beautiful."

For the inaugural ceremony, tea expert Tiffany Williams of Claremont greeted hikers with freshly brewed first-flush sencha tea.

"When they contacted me, they told me they had a teahouse and they wanted a ceremony," she says with a laugh. "Then I was picked up in the middle of the night by a Lyft and ended up in the Hollywood Hills, and then I walked up this hill to this teahouse. I didn't ask too many questions!"

But she says the space nonetheless evokes a true teahouse, like the ones she visited when she lived in Japan.

At the Griffith Park Teahouse

The Teafaerie blows her horn during sunrise as a group gathers around a teahouse that was surreptitiously built in Griffith Park by a collective of artists on Monday night.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

"It reminds me of some of the ones used by ancient Japanese tea masters," she adds. "They liked to keep things very simple, very rustic."

In addition to tea, each guest was also given a small wood shingle on which they could write a wish for the city. These were then deposited on pegs built into the inside of the structure — a token to be left behind. ("Los Angeles, thank you for housing me, raising me, educating me in so many ways," read one such missive.)

The sky grew bright as the ceremony wrapped up. A jogger trotted through. And invited guests began to say their goodbyes and make their way back down the mountain.

I asked the collective's ringleader how long he thought the teahouse might last.

"Until tomorrow would be great," he laughed. But then he grew more thoughtful.

"I guess there's a fantasy that other citizens will come along and add to it," he explained. "But really, this whole thing, it's about just letting go."

Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-griffith-park-teahouse-20150630-column.html#page=1


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Re: [californiadisasters] Lightning prompts closure of all Los Angeles County beaches



That's because of this:

ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7 21s21 seconds ago

BEACH UPDATE: Los Angeles beaches have reopened based on recommendations from @NWSLosAngeles http://abc7.la/1FPbR5f



On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Richard Scott karrie_scott@hotmail.com [californiadisasters] <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Well there are still people on the beach in Santa Monica.

On Jun 30, 2015 5:46 PM, "Kim Noyes kimnoyes@gmail.com [californiadisasters]" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Lightning prompts closure of all Los Angeles County beaches

Updated 29 mins ago

Redondo Beach is cleared after lightning strikes on Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
KABC

Redondo Beach is cleared after lightning strikes on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. (Los Angeles County Fire Department Lifeguards)


REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (KABC) --
Lightning has prompted the closure of all beaches in Los Angeles County from the South Bay up to Zuma Beach, officials said.

Lifeguards with the Los Angeles County Fire Department cleared Redondo Beach after witnessing lightning strikes shortly before 5 p.m.

#Lightning strikes just witnessed inland of #RedondoBeach. Topaz Lifeguard clearing the water first then the beach.

Source: http://abc7.com/news/lightning-prompts-closure-of-all-los-angeles-county-beaches/819564/




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[californiadisasters] Lightning Beach Closures [1 Attachment]

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The beaches are open here in Santa Monica..

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Re: [californiadisasters] Lightning prompts closure of all Los Angeles County beaches



Well there are still people on the beach in Santa Monica.

On Jun 30, 2015 5:46 PM, "Kim Noyes kimnoyes@gmail.com [californiadisasters]" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Lightning prompts closure of all Los Angeles County beaches

Updated 29 mins ago

Redondo Beach is cleared after lightning strikes on Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
KABC

Redondo Beach is cleared after lightning strikes on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. (Los Angeles County Fire Department Lifeguards)


REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (KABC) --
Lightning has prompted the closure of all beaches in Los Angeles County from the South Bay up to Zuma Beach, officials said.

Lifeguards with the Los Angeles County Fire Department cleared Redondo Beach after witnessing lightning strikes shortly before 5 p.m.

#Lightning strikes just witnessed inland of #RedondoBeach. Topaz Lifeguard clearing the water first then the beach.

Source: http://abc7.com/news/lightning-prompts-closure-of-all-los-angeles-county-beaches/819564/



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Re: [californiadisasters] Lightning prompts closure of all Los Angeles County beaches



Well there are still people on the beach in Santa Monica.

On Jun 30, 2015 5:46 PM, "Kim Noyes kimnoyes@gmail.com [californiadisasters]" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Lightning prompts closure of all Los Angeles County beaches

Updated 29 mins ago

Redondo Beach is cleared after lightning strikes on Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
KABC

Redondo Beach is cleared after lightning strikes on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. (Los Angeles County Fire Department Lifeguards)


REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (KABC) --
Lightning has prompted the closure of all beaches in Los Angeles County from the South Bay up to Zuma Beach, officials said.

Lifeguards with the Los Angeles County Fire Department cleared Redondo Beach after witnessing lightning strikes shortly before 5 p.m.

#Lightning strikes just witnessed inland of #RedondoBeach. Topaz Lifeguard clearing the water first then the beach.

Source: http://abc7.com/news/lightning-prompts-closure-of-all-los-angeles-county-beaches/819564/



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Re: [Geology2] More Volcano News 06.30.2015



They must have special tires that don't melt..Allison

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Subject: [Geology2] More Volcano News 06.30.2015
Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2015 7:39 PM

 

Hot wheels! Daring mountain bikers cycle down active volcanoes in Sicily and bunny hop on smouldering rocks and oozing lava

(Many images!)

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By: Nancy Ibo Mediavillo, Philippines News Agency
June 30, 2015 
Bulusan ejecting ash, 19 June 2015. TV5 VIDEOGRAB

InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5

LEGAZP CITY - Authorities on Monday expressed fear of lahar flows along river channels in case of heavy and sustained rains.

To be affected are Ranggas Channel in Barangay Aniog, Juban town, and Cogon Channel in Barangay Cogon in Irosin.

Henry Imperial, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) research assistant specialist based in Barangay Cabid-an, Sorsogon City, said heavy rains will surely carry the old and new ash deposits brought about by the explosions on May 1 up to June 23.

Imperial said that although the new deposits are still not a lot, the old ones were large enough to cause the lahar threats.

He warned villagers living near the affected river channels to be on alert and be always ready to move to safe place in case of heavy rains.

Dr. Ed Laguerta, Phivolcs resident volcanologist, said the rains being experienced in the area are due to thunder storms.

Although these are strong, Laguerta said, these could not bring strong lahar flows.

What is threatening are strong and sustained rains in the area of the volcano, he added.

Engineer Raden Dimaano, Sorsogon Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, said his office has already pre-positioned food supply in the three towns of Sorsogon where the threats from the Bulusan Volcano are most feared -- Irosin, Juban, and Bulusan.

Dimaano also assured the public of enough supply of medicines that the villagers need in case they would be affected by Bulusan's abnormal situation.

Despite these threats, however, the situation in the province is generally normal, he said.

No volcanic quake was registered in the past 24-hour observation period.

http://www.interaksyon.com/article/113309/lahar-flows-along-bulusan-volcano-channels-feared

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And from NASA:

Eruption of Wolf Volcano Continues

June 30, 2015
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86129&src=eoa-iotd

Laguna Colorada

June 29, 2015
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86135&src=eoa-iotd


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[californiadisasters] Lightning prompts closure of all Los Angeles County beaches



Lightning prompts closure of all Los Angeles County beaches

Updated 29 mins ago

Redondo Beach is cleared after lightning strikes on Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
KABC

Redondo Beach is cleared after lightning strikes on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. (Los Angeles County Fire Department Lifeguards)


REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (KABC) --
Lightning has prompted the closure of all beaches in Los Angeles County from the South Bay up to Zuma Beach, officials said.

Lifeguards with the Los Angeles County Fire Department cleared Redondo Beach after witnessing lightning strikes shortly before 5 p.m.

strikes just witnessed inland of . Topaz Lifeguard clearing the water first then the beach.

Source: http://abc7.com/news/lightning-prompts-closure-of-all-los-angeles-county-beaches/819564/



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[Geology2] More Volcano News 06.30.2015



Hot wheels! Daring mountain bikers cycle down active volcanoes in Sicily and bunny hop on smouldering rocks and oozing lava

(Many images!)

 __________________________________________________________________

By: Nancy Ibo Mediavillo, Philippines News Agency
June 30, 2015 
Bulusan ejecting ash, 19 June 2015. TV5 VIDEOGRAB

InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5

LEGAZP CITY - Authorities on Monday expressed fear of lahar flows along river channels in case of heavy and sustained rains.

To be affected are Ranggas Channel in Barangay Aniog, Juban town, and Cogon Channel in Barangay Cogon in Irosin.

Henry Imperial, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) research assistant specialist based in Barangay Cabid-an, Sorsogon City, said heavy rains will surely carry the old and new ash deposits brought about by the explosions on May 1 up to June 23.

Imperial said that although the new deposits are still not a lot, the old ones were large enough to cause the lahar threats.

He warned villagers living near the affected river channels to be on alert and be always ready to move to safe place in case of heavy rains.

Dr. Ed Laguerta, Phivolcs resident volcanologist, said the rains being experienced in the area are due to thunder storms.

Although these are strong, Laguerta said, these could not bring strong lahar flows.

What is threatening are strong and sustained rains in the area of the volcano, he added.

Engineer Raden Dimaano, Sorsogon Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, said his office has already pre-positioned food supply in the three towns of Sorsogon where the threats from the Bulusan Volcano are most feared -- Irosin, Juban, and Bulusan.

Dimaano also assured the public of enough supply of medicines that the villagers need in case they would be affected by Bulusan's abnormal situation.

Despite these threats, however, the situation in the province is generally normal, he said.

No volcanic quake was registered in the past 24-hour observation period.

http://www.interaksyon.com/article/113309/lahar-flows-along-bulusan-volcano-channels-feared

___________________________________________________________________________


And from NASA:

Eruption of Wolf Volcano Continues

June 30, 2015
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86129&src=eoa-iotd

Laguna Colorada

June 29, 2015
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86135&src=eoa-iotd


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[californiadisasters] Shasta Lake, California, June 26, 2015



Shasta Lake, California
acquired September 14, 2005 download large image (4 MB, JPEG, 2500x1666)
Shasta Lake, California
acquired September 2, 2014 download large image (4 MB, JPEG, 2500x1666)

The ongoing drought in the western United States is evident in the water levels of Shasta Lake, a large reservoir in northern California that counts on rainfall for replenishment. Low water levels can lead to hazardous conditions for local recreation. Many more people are affected by how this limited water resource is allocated for ecological, urban, and agricultural needs downstream.

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on Terra acquired these simulated true-color images of Shasta Lake. The top image shows the lake on September 14, 2005, and the bottom image was acquired on September 2, 2014.

On the day the first image was acquired, the lake's elevation was 309.4 meters (1,015 feet); nine years later (second image), the lake level had dropped to an elevation of 278.3 meters (913 feet). The water elevation in the reservoir at full capacity would be 325.2 meters (1,067 feet). Light tan colors along the shore are new beach areas that have been uncovered as the water level has dropped. Click on the image comparison tool to see how the shoreline has changed.

The reservoir began to take shape in 1950 with the completion of Shasta Dam, visible in the lower left corner. At the time, it was the second-tallest concrete dam in the world, standing 183.5 meters (602 feet) high and 148.4 meters (487 feet) long. The dam traps water flowing from Squaw Creek and the McCloud, Pit, and Sacramento rivers, as well as smaller creeks and streams. Water released from the dam flows into a continuation of the Sacramento River and, ultimately, into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay.

According to news reports, the temperature of the Sacramento River was warmer than expected in 2014, which led to a 95 percent loss of fall and winter runs of Chinook salmon. In 2015, water was again warmer than expected. In an effort to preserve cooler water, managers were considering whether to reduce the amount of water released downstream to communities that depend on it for their municipal water supply and crop irrigation.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86114&src=eoa-iotd


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[Geology2] 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake Rocked a Community That Would be Reborn from Its Rubble



1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake Rocked a Community That Would be Reborn from Its Rubble

Interactive Santa Barbara Historical Museum exhibit ensures 90th anniversary of deadly — and transformative — quake won't go unnoticed

<p>The 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake destroyed hundreds of buildings, many of them downtown. Vintage photographs are among the items marking the quake's 90th anniversary on display at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.</p>

The 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake destroyed hundreds of buildings, many of them downtown. Vintage photographs are among the items marking the quake's 90th anniversary on display at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo)

By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina | Published on 06.28.2015

A thunderous earthquake rattled Santa Barbara 90 years ago Monday.

Here's how radio reported the news:

"We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin. A major earthquake has struck Santa Barbara, California, at 6:44 this morning. Thirteen people have been reported killed with 30 injured and major damage to the downtown business district."

On June 29, 1925, the 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the city to its core. The epicenter was off the coast, where the Mesa and Mission Ridge faults meet. Californians felt the quake from Orange County to Watsonville.

While Santa Barbara's spirit may have been shaken, it could not be destroyed. Out of the rubble emerged the Historic Adobe, Mission Revival, Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean styles of architecture that the community is known for today.

You can experience an interactive earthquake exhibit at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St., through July 5.

The exhibit — "​Quake! The 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake" — includes vintage news broadcasts, newspaper clippings and survivor accounts.

The earthquake lasted for 18 seconds, followed by four sudden jolts. Another 200 aftershocks were recorded over the next months.

Father Augustine Hobrecht was superior at the Santa Barbara Mission, where he taught theology. His account offers a vivid description of what transpired that morning.

"Beginning with a thump that seemed to come from a subterranean explosion, the earthquake shook those mighty walls and made them sway,"​ Hobrecht is quoted in the exhibit's video as saying of the mission.

"The noise was deafening, subsiding for what seemed for a brief second. Then the rocking began with greater violence, so I expected to see the building crumble at any moment."

The mission sustained major damage, but Hobrecht led efforts to rebuild the church, which had served Santa Barbara since 1786.

Downtown, three people died when the three-story San Marcos office building on State Street collapsed. Two others died at the Arlington Hotel when a water tanker suspended in a tower collapsed on the floors below.

Capt. G. Allen Hancock — philanthropist, oil tycoon and namesake of Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria — had checked into the hotel the night before with his son, Bertram.

A newspaper headline from Fargo, N.D., captures the impact of the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. Newspaper clippings and other vintage material are on display at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum as part of an exhibit marking the 90th anniversary of the quake. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo)
A newspaper headline from Fargo, N.D., captures the impact of the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. Newspaper clippings and other vintage material are on display at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum as part of an exhibit marking the 90th anniversary of the quake. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo)

"It all happened in a minute," Hancock says in the video. "The crash of falling timbers and steel beams and the walls of the hotel made an indescribable inferno of sound that dazed me.

"From the time I leapt from the bed until I was crawling from under the collapsed building seemed but a moment. My son probably never awakened from his sleep."

Hancock suffered critical injuries in the quake, which killed his 22-year-old son.

The earthquake busted open Sheffield Reservoir, which poured out 40 million gallons of water and flooded Santa Barbara's Eastside.

The most concentrated quake damage, the video states, took place downtown, where multistory brick and mortar, mixed wood and masonry composition toppled.

"State Street when we came to it seemed to be blocked with debris throughout its entire length," Edward Selden Spaulding, founder of Laguna Blanca School, says in the video.

"The south wall of the California Hotel lay as a pile of rubble. The Potter Theatre was a pile of rubbish and the Arlington Hotel was a fearful site. It was obvious not all of the guests there had escaped with their lives."

The Santa Barbara Historical Museum video also explains how alert citizens shut off gas and electricity lines to avoid fires, unlike the case in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

In all, more than 400 buildings were destroyed or damaged in the Santa Barbara quake.

The exhibit's video ends with "​The Santa Barbara Earthquake Song," sung by Vernon Dalhart: "It's just another warning, from God up in the sky, to tell all you good people that He still reigns on high. You cannot tell the moment, when He will call us home and we should all be ready before the time has come."

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/1925_santa_barbara_earthquake_anniversary_20150628
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Re: [Geology2] Does it matter if the Shroud of Turin is a fake?



Whether this is Jesus or not I couldn't say but it's still pretty amazing. Allison

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From: "Lin Kerns linkerns@gmail.com [geology2]" <geology2@yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: [Geology2] Does it matter if the Shroud of Turin is a fake?
Date: Sun, Jun 21, 2015 10:28 AM

 

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