This is his first-person account of the response to last week's earthquake. By all accounts, it could have been worse.
Books litter the floor in the law library after last week's earthquake.
Libraries were among the hardest hit buildings. The fault at which the quake occurred, fortunately, was more than 30 miles below the surface of the earth. Phones and computers were set up at stations around the room, and soon the calls began coming in. Each report of a problem on the Seattle campus, whether it was a crack in a wall or a suspicious smell, was recorded on a board at the front of the room. Within an hour, that board became filled and another board on the opposite side of the room was called into service.