Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS : COUNTY : Quake’s Rock and Roll Leaves People Shaking
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Everybody seemed to have a tale to tell. It was about where they were (in bed, for the most part) and what they were doing (sleeping) when the county began to rock and roll to the beat of an earthquake.
Newcomers to the area may have believed it was “the big one,” but to most veterans, Tuesday morning’s temblor centered near Palm Springs fell under the heading of a “good shaker.”
Police reported hundreds of calls from anxious residents seeking information and assurances that the shaking was over.
Although the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station just south of San Clemente declared a minor alert as a precautionary measure, there were no reports of serious damage, other than to nerves by hundreds of burglar alarms that were tripped by the quake.
Although the quake struck at 2:21 a.m., there were some people up and about to experience it.
At Hershel’s Deli, a 24-hour restaurant in Irvine, a swaying six-foot-tall stack of plates frightened a cook, and several customers left their meals unfinished as chandeliers swayed overhead.
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