Zachary Conat, who is in Christchurch, New Zealand, with the U.S. Air Force. That was before she saw news accounts of the devastating earthquake ... to expect him home after the disaster.

Fifteen people died on June 17, 1929, when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ... style of the 1930s. Christchurch citizens hailed it as a "miracle" that there was no loss of life after a 7.1 trembler ...