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Friday, March 28, 1980
University Daly Kansan
Kansas quakes are on the rise
By DON MUNDAY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Despite a drop in the number of earthquake events last year, Kansas followed a trend set by the rest of the nation to lift its average quake activity in 1979 over the previous year.
"There were a few more in Kansas last year," said Don Steeple of the Kansas Geological Survey, which has been building up of seismic stations across the state.
EIGHTEN EARTHIQUAKEES in Kansas last year, compared with 10 in 1978. But part of the increase could be due to an improvement in recording stations in Kansas. Steeples said.
The strongest quake was recorded on June 30 and occurred near the Tuttle Creek Reservoir near Manhattan. At 3.1 on Saturday, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Kansas in more than two
years, Steeple said. It was also probably the only one felt by Kansans last year.
"It's got to get up to about a magnitude 3 in a populated area before you start getting reports," he said. "A 3 in a populated area will generally be felt."
A magnitude 3 quake will rattle dishes and windows and can be noticed indoors. Below magnitude 2, it usually takes sensitive instruments to pick up the tremors.
“Still, there was a last year that was felt by some people in Nebraska, and one in southern Oklahoma once was noticed and it was only a 1.3,” he said.
Eight quakes of magnitude 2 or higher were pinpointed in Kansas, nearly all occurring in June, July and August. The 31st day one was followed the next day by a quake.
MOST OF THE recorded earthquakes occurred in the northern half of the state, with almost none occurring west of Great
The Kansas stations also recorded a number of minor quakes occurring in September 1978. On one day, five quakes, ranging from 1 to 2.7, occurred just north of Norton and Decatur
Depth of the Kansas quakes ranged from less than half a mile below the surface to more than 11 miles underground. Almost all occurred within three miles of the surface.
Worldwide, there were 58 quakes at magnitudes over 6.5 last year, four fewer than in 1978, according to a 1979 U.S. Geological Survey report.
The number of earthquake-related deaths across the globe plumbed from more than 15,000 in 1978 to only 1479 last year. No data was available for other years in the United States during 1978, however.
THE STRONEGEST QUAKE recorded in the world last year hit Indonesia in September and measured 8.1. The highest death toll from an earthquake last year occurred
in December when at least 600 were killed along the coast of Columbia and Ecuador.
Alaska and California had the strongest earthquakes that hit California in Imperial Valley was the worst earthquake in the continental United States since the San Fernando, Calif., quake in 2014.
The worst quake ever reported in Kansas happened near Manhattan in 1867 and has been estimated at a magnitude 3. That same quake was comparable for smaller quakes for more than 100 years.
The increased number of earthquakes recorded in Kansas last year, however, can be traced in part to several more earthquakes already been added to the network, Stepsley said.
In early 1978 the survey had six Kansas stations reporting, and from mid-1978 until early March 1979 it had nine.
Now, he said, there are 13 stations checking seismic activity in Kansas, four of them in the western part of the state. More recently, he said, as funding becomes available.
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Custodians reject AMS removal plan
By GREG SACKUVICH Staff Reporter
A University of Kansas Medical Center plan to phase out American Management Services from its housekeeping department. The university has been rejected by the custodians' union.
A second plan that would phase out AMS over a six-month period also has been mentioned to Mike McCready, the team leader, that plan also was rejected by McCready.
"We aren't buying it," Francis Jacobs, president of the Public Service Employees Union, said yesterday. "I can't see why they have to take so long to get back on the job, especially since they knew five months ago they weren't going to renew AMS."
The plans would remove six persons from the Med Center housekeeping department—three supervisors, the management director and two assistant directors.
These six people are all employees of AMS, not the Med Center. Jacobs said.
UNDER THE PLAN, the Med Center would assume direct control of its housekeeping department after AMS is phased out. Jacobs said.
There have been complaints of alleged AMS harassment of the custodians, he said, and the Union would like the Med to remove AMS as soon as possible.
"We don't actually approve the contents of the contract, but we do have to ok them," Mr. Alma said. "There are problems on one side, we try to see the other side aware of the problems."
AMS had a housekeeping contract with KU on the Lawrence campus, but it was not renewed when it expired last November.
If there is an impasse in the negotiations between the Med Center and the American Medical Association, and Reports may become a mediator, Patrick Hurley, secretary of ad-hoc committees at the Med Center, may become a mediator.
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