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PARKFIELD, Calif.
This week's forecast: 37 percent chance of a 6.0 earthquake
State officials issued a rare earthquake warning yesterday after a swarm of quakes struck Parkfield, Calif., at town on the San Andreas Fault.
Mondav. November 15. 1993
The largest quake struck at 4:25 a.m., measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale, said John Minsch, a seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no reports of damage or injury.
The state Office of Emergency Services warned there was a "significant likelihood" that an earthquake at least magnitude 6 could occur within 72 hours. The "level A" 'alert means there is 37 percent chance the predicted quake would occur within three days.
The office advised emergency agencies in seven counties to activate short-term quake response plans.
The U.S. Geological Survey predicted that an earthquake measuring about 6 would rock the Parkfield segment of the San Andreas Fault by 1993.
The Parkfield segment stretches for nearly 20 miles through the oak-dotted Cholame Valley, a sparsely populated area between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The expected earthquake could trigger the rupture of a 25-mile section of the fault southeast of the Parkfield segment. That in turn could produce a quake between magnitude 7 and 7.5, experts said.
A quake of magnitude 5 on the Richter scale can cause considerable damage.
VATICAN CITY
Cardinal charged with sex abuse
Steven Cook, 34, filed a $10 million lawsuit Friday in Cincinnati that he was sexually abused in his teens by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who was archbishop of Cincinnati from 1972 to 1982.
Bernardin, now head of the Chicago archdiocese, has denied the allegations. He is the highest-ranking Roman Catholic clergy member in the United States to face such charges.
Although Pope John Paul II has not mentioned the accusations against the prominent U.S. cardinal, Vatican Radio, a voice of the Holy See, called the charges "fithy, worth of disdain." A commentary broadcast Saturday described Bernadin as "well-balanced and a man of prayer" and said charges of abuse are often made for money.
Also Saturday; the Vatican's secretary of state. Cardinal
Angelo Sodano, criticized the mass media for having "no respect for the person" and for not respecting "the private life and intimacy."
Sodano did not cite Bernardin by name but said, "True communication does not consist in showing all and telling all, which harms the person."
MOGADISHU, Somalia Bandits kill 15, escape with trucks
Bandits held up a truck convoy and shot dead 15 Somalis and wounded 13 before escaping with 10 of the trucks, U.N. officials said yesterday.
Italian troops recovered four trucks and handed over four of the bandits to Somali police, said U.N. representative Farouk Mawlawi.
The convoy of 14 trucks was returning to Mogadishu after unloading at an Italian base Friday. The Somalis were believed to be carrying cargo under contract for the United Nations. Mawlawi said.
On Saturday, armed bandits hijacked a U.N. vehicle, killing an American civilian and wounding two other U.N. employees before fleeing with the car. A memorial service was held yesterday for Kai Lincoln, 24, of Hoboken, N.J.
"There appears to be an increased possibility of banditry within Mogadishu," U.N. military representative Capt. Tim McDavitt said. "A lot of the militia, a lot of the people out there fighting for the militia, are presently inactive. Perhaps they don't have anything better to do."
U.S. war games worry North Korea
North Korea declared yesterday that planned U.S.-South Korean military exercises threaten peace and could bring a "miserable end" to South Korea's government.
TOKYO
The Communist state's warning came amid efforts by South Korea and the West to have North Korea accept international inspections of its nuclear facilities. North Korea denies it is building a nuclear arsenal.
The United States and South Korea plan to begin war games today involving most of the 36,000 American troops based in South Korea plus 650,000 South Korean troops.
The North's official Korean Central News Agency quoted an unnamed official spokesman as saying the exercises show that Washington and Seoul have no intention of trying to solve the nuclear issue through dialogue.
The statement said South Korea and the United States would be "held responsible" for the "provocative war exercises."
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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