Neville gives his own first-hand account of the earthquake: a friend finally got through from Cincinnati after two days of trying, and Neville told him he woke a minute before six, went to the bathroom, and the shaking started before he could get back to bed — his wife calling out not to get off the bed.
Date (happened)
9 February 1971
unresolved
9 February 1971
stated · preferred
last Tuesday morning
relative
before 1971
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [551713] belong to telling lecture nids [2022]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
9 February 1971
estimated · probable
Why
Supersedes nothing. The existing year-less relative claim and the phase4 before-1971 safe-envelope bound both stand as posted; this is a new, more precise claim from a different basis.
Reasoning
Neville names no date and no place for the quake, so the date comes from identifying it. He lectured in Los Angeles and told this three days later, on 1971-02-12. The San Fernando earthquake of 1971-02-09 is the only significant Los Angeles-area earthquake in that window - M6.6, epicentre in the San Gabriel foothills immediately north of the city, 65 deaths, and the defining local event of that week - and 'came through it with minor damage' is exactly how a household outside the worst-hit valley would describe it. Held at probable rather than certain because the identification is inference from an undated description: the quake's own date is certain, the match to this telling is not formally proven.
Told / reported
12 February 1971
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 551738 is Neville giving his own first-hand account of the earthquake directly, telling a Cincinnati friend on the phone that he woke a minute before six and the shaking started before he could get back to bed. The lecture containing this passage, nid 2022, is dated 1971-02-12 by a probable, internally-derived delivery claim (Lincoln's birthday, the coming Washington's-birthday Monday, and the earthquake two days earlier), so the telling inherits that date and confidence.
12 February 1971
estimated
Why
This event also cites nid 2022, whose near-identical passage text of the same story suggests it is a second node record of this same talk rather than a separate telling; recorded as a second, corroborating claim rather than assumed identical.
Reasoning
Passage 556788 is Neville telling on the platform that his household came through the earthquake with only minor damage and twelve worried calls; the lecture carrying this telling (nid 3997) is dated 1971-02-12 by its sole, certain delivery claim, so the telling inherits that date at the same precision.
12 February 1971
estimated · probable
Why
Recorded separately per the one-claim-per-telling-lecture rule, though the near-identical wording across nid 3997 and 2022 looks like the same lecture surviving as two node records rather than two distinct deliveries.
Reasoning
Passage 551713 carries the same story (household minor earthquake damage, twelve calls) nearly verbatim in lecture nid 2022; that lecture is independently dated 1971-02-12 by its own delivery claim, so this second witness's telling is recorded at that lecture's own probable confidence.
Sources
Source
- True Freedom Manifestation ¶31 (I woke just about one minute before six. I went to the bathroom. I was only there a minute, less than a minute. Before I could get back to my bed, the thing started. And as you know, it’s brilliant how intense it was. It came so suddenly. It was no rumbl…)
- The True Freedom ¶8 (We had 12 calls from the east, New York, Cincinnati, Jersey, and so on, to ask about us. Well, we didn’t tell them. Nothing happened. A few things were broken, not much. No damage to the house.)
- True Freedom Manifestation ¶6 (A few things were broken, not much. No damage to the house. A couple of pieces of china, a few badges, and of course the things that fell off the walls, of all of us and bags. But there’s really no damage. But he had the experience of the shake. And we a…)