SSA 2001 Annual Meeting

It was déjà vu all over again at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the SSA from April 17-21,2001, in San Francisco, California. The meeting, which was hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Geophysics Department and the John A. Blume Engineering Center of Stanford University, coincided with the 95th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. A few intrepid SSA members (mostly Stanfordians) heroically pried themselves out of their sacks to join 1906 earthquake survivors and their friends at 5:12 AM on April 18 at Lotta's Fountain on Market Street for speeches and bloody Marys followed by...