Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: Story Identification Message-ID: <876@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 03:29:28 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.876 Posted: Tue Mar 5 03:29:28 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 02:53:52 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 30 From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA > From: Joseph M. Newcomer> The plot: Geologists have evidence (new theory, new instruments, ?) that > a major earthquake will hit L.A. within the next (week, month, ?). The > story concentrates on the politics and sociology of getting t he city > evacuated. It is evacuated. After k days, no earthquake. Geologists > look like fools; everyone unhappy. City is un-evacuated. Earthquake > strikes, millions die. > > I thought I remembered it from Analog, but I've just done a massive search > of the last 10 years and can't find it. I have a friend who is a geologist > but non-sf person to whom I would like to show it. Your memory is better than your search skills. The story is, I believe (I haven't looked up the issue to check), "Fault" by James Gunn, in the June 1975 issue of ANALOG. [I've sent this directly to the requestor, since he asked to have it done so, but I thought I'd post it here for anyone else who cares to know the answer.] --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my business">