----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In southern California - how unusual and unexpected ... Everything fine in Santa Barbara. In this library, on 7th and 8th floor several thousand books on the floor (top shelves mainly, I guess). Electricity went off here about 5 minutes after the quake; came back on around 2pm which seems to me quick work on the part of the public-utilities persons (it's like being in Spain, where everything goes through Madrid - in soCal, a good many things go to LA first). While it was definitely one of those leap-out- of-bed-and-stand-in-a-doorway times, it was under 10 seconds here, with only2 or 3 aftershocks. Mary L. Larsgaard, Map & Imagery Lab, Library UCSB