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1.31.2006

I So Remember This

Today's news is history!

11:47 a.m., Jan. 31, 1986.

A force equaling 20,000 tons of dynamite rippled through 10 states and Canada.

Although there were just two seismographs in all of Ohio, quake experts quickly traced the epicenter to our own backyard: Lake County, just north of the Geauga County line.

It lasted maybe five seconds, long enough to vibrate merchandise from store shelves, crack plaster and break windows.

But mostly, it was a novelty that people got a kick out of as they donned their ``I Survived the Quake of '86'' T-shirts.

I was at my great-grandma's house. She thought it was a tornado so she made me go into the basement, you know the safest place to be during an earthquake.

The BJ :: Akron quaked, rattled, rolled

(joe :: I So Remember This)

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