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Oregon Daily WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1995 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 96, ISSUE 79 Risk: Though chances of a quake in Eugene are minimal, people should prepare in advance Bert Moebius Oregon Dmty Em&akl Eugene residents should not worry about being hit by an earth quake, a University geology pro fessor said. "If you're n student in Eugene for alxnit four years, you have less than n 1 percent chant e of expe riencing an earthquake in this area." said Kay Weldon, nssot i nte professor of geological sci ence. "On the other hand." said Wel don, "this is not Kansas, There is a risk, hut it is more pertinent to the long term.'* Weldon said the only people who need to worry about the risks of an earthquake in Oregon are those who are building long term structures, like bridges and buildings. According to Weldon, the most earthquake prone arras of the state have only about a 35 per cent chance of experiencing an earthquake in the next 100years. The most prone areas include most of the coastal regions of the state and the Willamette Valley. "Eugene may have around a 30 percent chance of experiencing an earthquake in a hundred years," he said, “Hut Los Angeles has about an HO percent chance of going through another earth quake in the next 30 years Many people in California would love to be in the same c ategory as the Willamette Valley The largest threat of an earth quake comes from the Cascadia Subduct ion zone, which lies about 50 to tOQ kilometers off tin coast of Oregon The zone repre sents a plate boundary, where the Turn to TREMORS, Pagt -s MAJOR EARTHQU/ Some of the 20th century's strongest earthquakes. The magnitude is followed by the location and num ber killed. ■ 9.5. May 21-30. 1960. Chile. 5.000. ■ 8 9. March 2. 1933. Japan. 2.990. ■ 8.7, Aug. 15. 1950. India, 1,530. ■ 8.6. Dec. 16, 1920, China. 100,000. ■ 8.6. Aug. 16. 1906, Chile. 20.000. ■ 8.4, March 27, 1964. Alaska. 131. ■ 8 4. Dec. 21. 1946, Japan. 2.000 ■ 8.4, Jan. 15, 1934, India, 10.700. KES THIS CENTURY ■ 8 3. Jan. 24. 1939. Chile. 28.000. ■ 8 3, May 22. 1927, China. 200,000. ■ 8.3. Sept. 1. 1923, Japan. 100.000. ■ 8 3. April 18-19. 1906. San Francisco. 432. ■ 8,1 to 8.2. Aug 8. 1993. Guam, none ■ 8.2. May 23. 1989. Macquarie Islands, unknown ■ 8.2. Nov. 23. 1977, Argentina. 8.2. 100. ■ 7 8 to 8.2, July 28.1976. Tang Shan, China, official figure 242,000. unofficial estimates as many as 800.000. ■ 8 1. Sept. 19. 1985. Mexico. 9,500. ■ 8 1. Sept 12, 1979, Indonesia. 100 ■ 7 8, Aug, 17, 1976, Philippines, 8,000. ■ 7.7, Sept 16, 1978, Iran, 25.000. ■ 7.5. Feb 4. 1976, Guatemala, 22,778. ■ 7 3-7.7. June 21. 1990, Iran, 50.000. ■ 7 3, Oct. 10. 1980, Algeria, 4.500. ■ 7.3-7.7, June 21, 1990, Iran, 50.000. ■ 7.2, Nov. 23. 1980, Italy. 4.800. ■ 7.1. Oct. 30.1983, Turkey. 1,300. ■ 8 9, Dec 7. 1988, Soviet Armenia, 25,000 ■ 6 4, Sept. 30. 1993. India, 6 4. 9,700. STEVEN AS8URY AND MATT GAHTOWEm*aM '.. .-v^- , -• mssesstsBsmss^suBtmm^^ ■ mmssmmstimtmmietKmimiam Kobe devastated after earthquake Ben Moebius assisted by AP wire reports D&tty { rr)**stilt l tikumi Niitsimi. »i undorgrmiuittt? stmlrnt iit the University. found out about the worst earthquake to hit Japan in 40 years through a phone i all from tier family. Niitsuya's husband called from her fame 1> s home in Osaka to tell her about the dis aster and to reassure Injr that the family was all right "they i ailed mo out! hour aftur it happuuod and tolt! mu many poopln «irt> dead and miKMiix.' sJu> said. "Wtt wort! lucky Kvoryons from my family is safe ’* Survivors with blank ex(missions wandered hat tttrtid st routs I uesdav in a city that was supposed to stand up to earthquakes, their faith m tw hnology smashed by a disaster that killed at lists! l.HOO people klevated roads and bridges that Japanese engineers Insisted were quake-proof were bro ken at crazy angles, flung to earth by the for e of nature, crushing whatever was beneath them Motorists perished as their cars skidded off the collapsing highways Tracks and bridges for Japan's famous "bullet" trains went dam aged badly enough to be out of action for months Hundreds of thousands of survivors struggled to live without electricity, gas or water Hardly a block in this industrial purl city of l ^ million people had a house or build ing intact Many streets were reduced to piles of rubble by the strongest quake to strike an urban area of Japan since HMH. (k.tka, Japan's ms ondlargesl city, was also Turn to QUAKE. Page » Three students fight residency policy Court: Lawsuits result after attempts at other options Tiffany Smith Oegcn BrmtkS Throe University students are chal lenging the Oregon State System of Higher Education's residency policies hy going to court. Jairneo Dawson and l.inda Hancock filed lawsuits Tuesday in the Lane County Circuit Court. Audrey Harris is expected to file her suit by Friday The students are asking for residency status, a refund for back out-of-state tuition jjaid since l'.W.t and an amendment of current residency policies. The students have Exhausted the appeals process and are faced with three choices, said Gary Christensen, assistant vice chancellor for student ser vices and academic affairs. They can forget it, reapply or take legal action The women say the state system is presuming their primary reason for being in Oregon is for educational pur poses Dawson said they moved to ()re gon primarily for a (letter environment in which to r»tsw Iter children The fail that she goes to school full time and lives in student housing was key in her denial of residency. “Don't exclude someone from your program because they took advantage of your benefits," Dawson said. She said that she was attending the University during summer term in 1993. But the new residency rules went into effect in November 1993, so she said her residency request should be considered under the old rules, mat the newer anil stricter rules. She said some law school students were granted resi dency under the old rules. The three students were denied resi dency status on the campus level, the Interinstitutxonal Residency Committee level ami finally by Vi< v Chancellor for Academic Affairs Shirley ('lark They had requested and were gnuiltxl a meeting with Clark and Christenson, but say they were mot with the attitude that nothing w ould change Clark's deci sion. The students then canceled the mooting Dawson expressed frustration with state system officials "We are asking for open-minded Us temng," she said. Christensen said he was contacted hy the Office of Student Advocacy for a meeting with the students. "There is nothing we ran dis< uss that could enable us to go lw<-k and change the decision made by Vic e Chancellor Clark." he said, "i have never done any thing to discourage or avoid a meeting to discuss the residency policy." ■ GOOD MORNING ► SANDERSVILLE.Ga (AP) — An 11 -year-old boy was arrested Tuesday alter he robbed a bank with a .38-caJiber pistol and made his getaway on a bicycle, police said Most of the money was recov ered, and police said they were searching lor an adult male accomplice The boy, who was not identi fied, wasi being held in the Washington County jail until he could be transferred to a juvenile lock up. Witnesses toid police the youth was wearing a ski mask when he walked into a Citizens Bank branch and brandished the pistol, demanding money from a frightened teller. He left on a bike and was arrested about 20 minutes later. Price said.
