text:  And most of the staff had already left to dash home and watch the game. And at three minutes after five, I started out, and then I saw the phone, and I said, well, maybe I'll just check with the Berkeley Seismographic Station to see if my quake has happened yet. It could have been a five off the end of the county, and I might have missed it. So I dialed up the numbers, and I was within one or two digits of getting through when the quake struck.