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Friday, October 2. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Quake
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Based on its location, scientists are calling yesterday's quake the Whittier Narrows earthquake, said Clarence Allen, professor of geology and geophysics at the California Institute
of Technology in Pasadena.
In Compton, 12 miles southwest of the epicenter, spokeswoman Andrea Guy said "major and minor structural damage" was apparently widespread. City Hall was closed after a woman was hit in the head by a chunk of ceiling plaster.
The quake was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nev.
Living on the fault line
Earthquakes like the one that hit Los Angeles yesterday tend to occur along the active margins of continental plates, which float on the Earth's molten core like pieces of French bread on onion soup.
From the KU Weather Service
SOURCE; Miami Herald research
Knight-Ridder Graphic
WEATHER Lawrence Forecast
Quake hysteria hit, police say
The Associated Press
other debris.
LOS ANGELES — Many supposedly quake-wise Southern Californians forgot the experts' advice and scrambled for the streets in yesterday's tremor, and authorities said they could count themselves fortunate more didn't walk into serious trouble.
The quake, which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale, killed at least five people, injured at least 100 and caused widespread but mostly minor damage within a 20-mile radius of the epicenter, 10 miles east of downtown.
"From the looks of some of the damage, we're pretty lucky there weren't more people hurt," said police spokesman Sgt. Robert Gandy, noting downtown sidewalks were littered with showers of glass and
"Given it was rush hour, it could have been a lot worse," said Officer William Frio, who worked with Ganity's emergency operations center.
Most of the Los Angeles-area working world was riding in cars on the freeway system when the quake hit
at 7.24 a.m., bringing rush hour to a temporary standstill.
While some commuters reported their cars were jolted off the road, many likened the movement to that of driving over rough pavement or on a flat tire. Some thought at first that they were having car trouble.
"Why is my car going this way when I'm turning the other way?" freeway traveler Lorene Yeomans of Temple City said she asked herself
Jump off the side and dangle in it.
"The car in front of mine hit the brakes and drove into the bushes on the side. Everything stopped."
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