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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 28, 1997
Quake cleanup begins in Northern California
The Associated Press
SCOTIA, Calif. - Mill workers restacked lumber yesterday, and firefighters hosed the remains of the town's center, which caught fire during a series of violent earthquakes that caused about $131 million in damage along the coast.
About 700 mill workers were asked to report to work yesterday in Scotia in order to begin cleaning up, said Pacific Lumber President John Campbell.
Cleanup efforts also were under way in Fortuna, Del Rio, Petrolia and Ferndale, towns in northern California damaged by both Saturday's magnitude-6.9 temblor and Sunday's sharp aftershocks.
A total of 95 people were injured, according to an informal Red Cross survey of hospitals.
The Red Cross, which had completed 65 percent of its survey yesterday, said 308 homes were damaged by the quake and 247 were uninhabitable.
About 1,000 people registered at shelters in Del Rio and Scotia, but only about 100 actually slept at the two centers.
*Because of the magnitude of the
twoaftershocks, we're reluctant many people are reluctant to stay inside buildings," said Elizabeth Quirk, a Red Cross representative. "They are using tents and sleeping bags."
The first serious aftershock hit at 12:42 a.m. Sunday and measured 6.0 on the Richter scale. The second, magnitude 6.5, hit at 1:48 a.m.
A magnitude-6 quake can cause severe damage and a magnitude-7 quake is considered a "major" quake, capable of widespread heavy damage.
Both were centered near the spot where the first quake struck, south of
Eureka, about 270 miles north of San Francisco. People as far away as Fresno, 460 miles to the south, felt the rolling temblor.
Scotia resident Hazel Sarlund said that the first afterschock was bad. But then she saw the reed glow in the sky.
"It was terribly upsetting," Sarlund said. "It felt like the end to everything was coming."
The fire raged through a strip mall at the center of town and destroyed a lumber yard, pharmacy, coffee shop, grocery store, hardware store and variety store. Explosive flames shot 100 feet in the air.
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- KU ANIME will meet at 6 p.m. today at Room 315 in the Art and Design Building.
Students Against Hunger will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union.
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
KU Students for Life will meet at 7 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
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The Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove I in the Kansas Unio;
Police do not know why the resident had so many guns, Lawrence police reported.
A silver-colored 1989 BMW 325i, which was reported stolen from a parking lot on Daisy Hill April 16 or 17, was found burned Friday outside of Lawrence. The car, valued at $14,000, was estimated as a total loss, KU police reported.
KU NORML will meet at 7 tonight at the fourth floor lobby in the Kansas Union.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas support group will meet at 8 tonight. Call Headquarters at 841-2345 or the KU Information Center at 864-3506 for the meeting location.
The KU Fencing Club will meet at 8:30 toight at 130 Robinson Center.
ON THE RECORD
A videocassette recorder and 34 guns, valued together at $10,497, were taken between 4:45 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday from a house in the 100 block of North Eighth Street. An unidentified person pried open the front door of the house and then pried open three gun cases and took 20 shotguns, 11 rifles, three handguns and five rifle scopes. The person left through the back door.
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