Further Reading
Hough, Susan Elizabeth.Earthshaking Science: What
We Know (and Don’t Know) About Earthquakes. Port-
land, Oreg.: Book News, 2004. Overview of seis-
mology designed to provide a basic introduction
for a lay audience.
___.Finding Fault in California: An Earthquake
Tourist’s Guide. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press,
- Details the locations and history of signifi-
cant faultlines within California.
Reti, Irene, ed.The Loma Prieta Earthquake of October
17, 1989: A UCSC Student Oral Histor y Documentar y
Project. Santa Cruz, Calif.: University of California,
Santa Cruz, University Library, 2006. Extensive
oral history of the earthquake and its effects, as-
sembled by students at the university nearest its
epicenter.
Yeats, Robert S,Living with Earthquakes in California:
A Survivor’s Guide. Corvallis: Oregon State Uni-
versity Press, 2001. Guide to the steps one should
take in advance of an earthquake in order to in-
crease the likelihood of survival.
Denyse Lemaire and David Kasserman
See also Baseball; Natural disasters; Sports.
Louganis, Greg
Identification Olympic diving champion
Born November 29, 1960; El Cajon, California
Louganis, the best springboard and platform diver of the
1980’s, is widely regarded as the world’s greatest diver.
During his career, Greg Louganis won forty-eight na-
tional diving titles, ten gold medals in the Pan Amer-
ican Games (1979, 1983, 1987), and the 1986 Jesse
Owens Trophy. He also received the 1984 James E.
Sullivan Award for the best amateur athlete and was
elected to the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1985. Among
all of his victories and honors, it was Louganis’s per-
formances at the Olympic Games that best reflected
his ability. After finishing second at the 1976 Olym-
pics, he was the favorite to win at the Olympic Games
in Moscow in 1980, but the United States’ decision
to boycott those games forced him to wait until the
1984 Los Angeles Olympics to demonstrate his prow-
ess. In Los Angeles, Louganis won both the spring-
board and platform diving events, a feat he would re-
peat in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. At
the Seoul Olympics, he had a comfortable lead go-
ing into the last few dives when he attempted a two-The Eighties in America Louganis, Greg 601
Greg Louganis dives from the 10-meter platform during the preliminary round of the competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.(AP/
Wide World Photos)