1.   Holliday, the downtown furniture store manager, said he was in his second-floor office when the quake struck.

2.   Although they were at home near the epicenter in Northridge with a family friend when the quake struck, the other Schuster children escaped unharmed.

3.   Asustek plugs the chips into motherboards before they are installed, and it had only three or four weeks of chips on hand when the quake struck.

4.   Because the quake struck at midafternoon, most of those killed were at work.

5.   But even before the quake struck last Tuesday, the industry was facing difficulties.

6.   But while the casualty figures seemed to be little more than estimates, various reports agreed that a major quake had struck.

7.   Crowley and his colleagues were in the process of updating their site when the quake struck and made fresh history.

8.   Eventually, word came that she had gotten up in the middle of the night and was in the kitchen when the quake struck Tuesday before dawn.

9.   For Andrew Basiago, the quake struck while he slept in San Luis Obispo, where he attended graduate school.

10.   He was at work when the quake struck, and dashed home.