Time Summary:
0:28 Self Introduction

0:48 Relationship between storytelling and disaster

1:21 Career as a news reporter in San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz

3:10 The earthquake hits on a slow day for news in San Jose

5:30 Reporters sharing news on the quake from around the bay

5:20 Colleagues reporting on the Bay Bridge collapse

6:20 Reporting on the Cypress Structure collapse

7:00 Responding to and reporting local damage

7:40 Learning about the epicenter, supposedly in Gilroy

9:15 Realizes people aren’t hearing from Santa Cruz, suspects epicenter is there

10:40 Describes earthquake aftermath Watsonville

11:15 Using reporting lights to illuminate emergency surgery

11:57 News crew stops at his house on the way into Santa Cruz

12:42 Pacific garden mall, historical context of earthquake

16:39 On scene, covering the earthquake

18:19 Reporting out on Santa Cruz to the east coast

19:45 Earthquake anniversary and interest in the epicenter

20:20 Cracks in the psyche vs cracks in the earth

22:55 The emotional impact of being at the epicenter
25:05 Impact of the earthquake on Santa Cruz gardens, his neighborhood
26:55 Home wreckage acting as a time capsule

28:41 Neighbors pitching tents in the front yards

29: 13 The first night he went back into his house

29:29 Emergency response supplies present day

30:12 Damages to homes in Santa Cruz

31:27 FEMA and emergency aid

32:13 People’s tendency to help in natural disasters

33:34 Some people in Santa Cruz were unaffected

34:44 Recording of UCSC classroom during quake

35:44 Insight on how people describe earthquakes

37:34 Previous experience covering earthquakes and science

39:00 Earthquake scales and Chalres Richter

40:29 Seismologists and earthquake preparedness

40:55 Reporting on natural disasters

42:16 Trauma in response to the earthquake

44:26 Reporting on traumatic affairs, beyond the earthquake

46:28 World renowned crack off Summit Road