Well, at the time of the quake I was sitting in seat 36C of a 747-400 (N178UA), UA1130, waiting to push back from Gate 86 at SFO. We were already about 15 minutes late for departure, and I had the headphones on, Channel 9. When the plane started shaking -- I initially thought "about damn time", assuming it was the tractor connecting for push-back. But we didn't go anywhere, and suddenly Ch. 9 (tuned to ground control) was all chatter... Ground: Whoo-- that was a big one! Wow! Aircraft: What the heck was that? Another aircraft: Did you guys feel that earthquake? Ground: We're still shaking up here! Ground: Uh, United xxx hold short of taxiway India. Continental yyy hold short of taxiway Alpha. Just hold up here while we see if there's a problem. There were a bunch more call-ins, ground control basically told everyone to stop, they said there would be a short ground stop while they sent out a mobile crew to inspect the runways and taxiways for damage, and meanwhile NORCAL (Bay Approach) put some arrivals in a holding pattern. There were no landings for a while so I assume anyone on final was told to go around. The ground stop was only about 10 minutes and everything returned to normal, so far as I could tell, with departures on 1L/R and landings on 28L/R. We taxied to 1R, and unfortunately held short on a taxiway for a further 15 minutes while we waited for "some final numbers on weight and load" (???). The flight then proceeded normally, except that we were almost an hour late, causing me to have to run through DEN for my SkyWest connection to Lincoln. (Which I made, and miraculously, my luggage made it too). -- Michael C. Berch mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 11:55 AM, Blaine Thompson wrote: > Don't know yet if this will affect air travel in and out of > SFO/LAX/SJC/OAK/BUR/etc. > > MSNBC: 6.5 earthquake rocks wide area of Southern California - Temblor > off > coast felt across broad swath of state. An earthquake rocked the > central > coast Monday and sent tremors across a wide swath of Southern > California. > > CNN: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit the central California coast about > 11:15 > a.m. (2:15 p.m. ET), the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter > was > located about 7 miles from San Simeon, 240 miles north of Los Angeles, > the > USGS reported. In Los Angeles and Sas Francisco, the quake was felt as > sustained rolling motion. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Check your PC for viruses with the FREE McAfee online computer scan. > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 >