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Anxiety follows LA earthquake
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of aftershocks sent ripples of anxiety through Southern California yesterday, hours after a strong desert earthquake caused isolated damage and dozens of injuries.
Earthquake experts cautioned that there was a slight chance that Wednesday night's 6.1-magnitude tremor could be a precursor to the long-dreaded "Big One."
"We're long overdue for one — a 7.0 or greater ... so we’re advising communities ... to be on their toes," said Lt. Bent Nottingham, representative of the Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management.
The state Office of Emergency Management advised authorities in six Southern California counties to be on alert, even though the probability of a great earthquake — one registering at least 7.5 on the Richter scale — decreased rapidly with each hour.
By yesterday, the U.S. Geological Survey said the chances of such an earthquake had fallen to less than 1-in-20.
Hundreds of tiny afterschocks were felt yesterday near the epicenter of the quake. Only two registered more than 4.0 on the Richter scale, said Douglas Smith, a representative for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena
Wednesday night's quake struck at
9:50 p.m. Wednesday and was centered about 110 miles east of Los Angeles, near Palm Springs in Riverside County. A 4-6-magnitude quake shook the same area 21/2 hours earlier.
"It was like something hit the side of the wall," said Ed Bowlin, a 26-year-old security guard at the Hyatt Regency Suites in Palm Springs. "It was like, this is your Earth Day wake-up call."
The quake rocked buildings from San Diego to Santa Barbara, 200 miles up the coast. Residents as far away as Las Vegas and Phoenix reported feeling the quake's effects.
"I lived in San Francisco for 39 years, and I never felt one this strong," said Vi Richardson, 62, who was lying in bed on the top floor of the Circus Circus Hotel in Las Vegas when the quake struck. "I thought it never would stop shaking."
Back in California, 15 people were taken to Hi-Desert Medical Center in Yucca Valley with minor injuries. Ten were treated and released, and five were admitted with injuries ranging from a broken ankle to cuts and bruises, said Theresa Graham, a hospital representative. All were listed in good condition.
Desert Hospital in Palm Springs said it had treated and released 10 people.
Building inspectors from throughout the region were in the field yesterday, assessing property damage.
NASA finds a key to galaxy's growth
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LOS ANGELES — A spacecraft has discovered the largest and oldest structures in the universe — wispy clouds that show how creation's big bang led to the formation of stars and galaxies, scientists said yesterday.
"If you're religious, it's like looking at God," said research team leader George Smoot, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley.
The discovery was made by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite in its $400 million mission to study the universe's origins.
Researchers say more than 300 million measurements by the spacecraft answer a question that long has vexed scientists: How did matter that was spread out uniformly in the newborn universe start clumping together to produce stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies?
If the research is confirmed, it's one of the main discoveries of the century, said physicist Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Smoot and his team presented the findings at an American Physical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. NASA also issued an announcement.
Smoot said the clouds formed about 300,000 years after the big bang, the primordial blast scientists think created the universe 15 billion years ago.
The largest clouds stretch across two-thirds of the known universe, or 59 sextillion miles, Smoot said.
The big-bang theory gained crucial support with the 1964 discovery of cosmic background microwave radiation, the big bang's "afterglow". But the radiation was smooth, which meant matter was uniformly distributed through the newborn universe.
The Earth-orbiting COBE satellite, launched on an unmanned rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1989, detected incredibly tiny temperature variations in the afterglow.
The temperature differences — only 30 millionths of a degree — represent different densities of matter in wispy clouds and surrounding regions, Smoot said. Once the clouds formed, gravity made increasing amounts of matter clump together, eventually creating galaxies, stars and galaxy clusters, he said.
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