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QUAKE Continued from Page 1 heavily damaged by the 7.2-mag nitude quake that ttn.u k heforo tinwn Tuusday. The wreckage extended 30 miles northwest of Kobe to the sacred temple* ami statues of the ancient city of Kyoto. More than fiOO aftershocks hit the area through Wednesday morning, including 60 that could tx> felt While Kobe was bv far the hardest hit, !>oth the city where tender beer-fed Kobe beef gets its name and Osaka burned through the night from fires fueled by ruptured gas lines National police said 1,812 people were known dead by Wednesday morning, 086 were missing and 6.366 injured The toll was ex (Me tie! to rise .is com munications were restored fust outside Kobe, damage seemed almost arbitrary a showroom window at an auto dealership survived undamaged Next to it, four wooden houses collapsed In the city, a five story building had fallen on its side, and a seven-story bank building leaned over the side walk "I thought it was the end of the world." said n-t year-old Minoru Tnkasu. whose house fell down around him in Nishi noiniya. six miles from Koine "I survived by sliding into a small gap ImiIween a dish cabi net and the wall." hi- told the As.ihl iii-wspaper I n; happy (o Im» alive!" The shaking lasted about 20 se« onds. and when it was over 7,000 buildings were destroyed Many people slept outside for fear of further damage to build ings left standing. About 100,000 poopi« spent the night in emergency shelters, eating ru e hails handed out hv rescue workers and sipping wafer trucked in by the fire department because so rnnny water lines were fractured Many fled their homes with nothing mom than scanty night // — The if utile came suddenly. I could not stop trembling w ith fear umler my futon — Tomiko Watas* farther s** wee rr clothes "I brought no food with me," said a man interviewed by Japanese television as he hud died near n fire in n garbage bin in a parking lot "But someone gave me food We're all sharing everything." Tnkarazuka. Ashiya and Awoji Island were also damaged in the quake, which occurred a year after a magnitude fl.7 quake kilted 61 people in and around the Northridge area north of Ij>* Angeles "The quake came suddenly I i mild not stop trembling wt’h fear under my futon," Tomiko Watase. a i of fee shop owner in the town of Awajt, told Kyodo New Servo »> More than 1.000 soldier* were dispatched to the quake /one, and more were on standby In holm, helicopters burred over head as the government ferried in food and blankets The devastation shattered Japan's belief that sophisticated engineering would enable its newer buildings and roads to withstand a major quake Already, criticism was being voiced about prevention and rescue effort* "I think rescue measures have been very slow." said Tokyo University professor Osamu Koide "I think there was a 1st k of quake preventive know) edge " Following damaging earth quakes in the United States, Japanese esports had confident ly predie tod that roadways in this country would stand up to oven a serious quake But *e> lions of several major express ways collapsed, as did many modern buildings Some over passes buckled like an accor dion Slot ks of insuranc e compa nies, whic h will have to lay out large amounts to cover damage, took a hit. initial damage esti mates ranged from $10 billion to $20 billion, said Patrit k Hogan of Smith New Court So< unties The quake's full force was taken by Kobe, a shipbuilding and steei-rnanufac luring c enter loc ated 20 miles west of Osaka It is the gateway for 12 perc ent of Japan's exports Cars trying to get in or out jammed the severed roads and bridges, fern service was sus pended to outlying islands > it oi lapsed Television showed dramatic w one* of people buried in erum bled debris awaiting rose ue and bandaged victims speaking of the horror of an earthquake in TV ti Hit-age iliiiii ; K.,k.i the fin c of a woman was visible in (fits rubble "l'v« been sitting in a small spac e here," she cried out in a feeble voice "But my mother has bad legs, and c an’t last muc h longer ” Huge pillars of smoke rose in (he sky a* dozens of fire* antla ued to hum nearly 24 hours after the 5 45 a m. quake Next to one fire, three fire trucks were parked, a* firemen stood by helplessly because the quake had cut water supplies. At a community renter in Kolx*. where about 30 neighbors were spending the niRht. the only light came from two can dle* on the table. One middle-aged man refused to come indoors. "1 don't want to go inside a building," he said, shivering It's cold, but 1 would rather stay outside than in a building that may t ollapse on top of me again." The quake was • entered 12 5 miles under Awaji in the Inland Sea. the Central Meteorological Agency said, Bert Mat/er k. a (Canadian free Unce photographer who trav eled to the island, said it looked like a war zone He said dazed survivors were wandering in the rubble The country has been rattled by a series of strong quakes since Dec 28. when a quake with a magnitude of 7.5 jolted northern Japan. Kobe is not considered a major center of seismic activity, though several a< live faults run through the region. About 8.(KM) Americans live in the Kobe-Osaka area but none were reported among the casual ties. the U.S Embassy in Tokyo and State Department said. None of the 11 nuclear power plants in Fukui, 84 miles north east of Kobe, was damaged by the quake, a Kansai Electrii Power Co. spokesman said. TREMORS Continued from Page 1 Juan d« Fuat crustal plate is being shoved under North America. Weldon said According to Weldon, this plate activity i reates the high est risk along Oregon's coasts He said many of the earth quakes that have occurred in Japan and California over the jwst 100 years wore created bv the same type of plate bound ary tension However, the earthquake that occurred near Kobe, in Japan, was created by a small fault line within a crustal plate There are many of these small fault lines in Oregon. Weldon said “The risk from these types of fault lines is much less because there is not usually strong pressure." he said. "Unless the fault line happens to lay under a populated area, damage is usually minimal." Weldon said that the com position ed the earth in differ ent areas also affects the risk of an earthquake “Some of the areas in north and northwest luigone are built on wetlands and soft earth. You might get a higher amplification in those areas if an earthquake hap pens." According to Ike Jensen. Lane County emergency man agement coordinator, it is important to have a disaster plan despite the comparative ly low risk of earthquakes in Oregon. "You need to know what to do in case of an emergency," he said. Good places to go in case of an earthquake are under a desk or in doorways." House Speaker gets details of names, expenses from Rose Bowl Marcelene Edwards Oraqor* Oftfy £mmakf Tl»n Oregon Economic Development Department sprint around $35,000 to send 1 B people on business trips to the Rose Howl, said Julia Brim Edwards, spokes woman (or House Speaker Iktv Ctamo Members of the development depart ment met with (Uamo and member* of her office on Friday to disclose information shout the trip. Hritn-Fdwards said William Scott, direr tor of the develop ment department. gave Clarno the sje* ifit:s about trips for employee* of the development office to the Rose Bowl, including names of people who went and a breakdown of expenses, in an hour long meeting, said Peggy Sand Hberle. a devel opment department spokeswoman The results of the meeting were not available as of press time. Clarno requested the information last week, after critic izing the department for the* trip that allowed development spe cialists to merit with HO representatives of about 25 companies that might invest in Oregon. Eberb said. The department provided only descrip tions of the companies they met with in California Oregon law prohibits giving names of companies until < ontracts have been signed, because of confidentiality mbs, Hrim-Kdwards said. After the meeting, Clarno was still ' skeptical of whether it was a good use of taxpayer money," Brun-Edwnrds said The money paid for flights, meats and hotel bills for each employee. It ulso paid for 90 tickets to the Rose Bowl game and tournament parade. That information was also provided for members of the Legislature for their noti fication. 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