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by the Oregon Department of Ge
ology and Mineral Industries that
predicted the damage and eco
nomic loss in the event of a major
earthquake listed Lane County as
one of the most threatened areas in
the state.
If an earthquake with a magni
tude of eight on the Richter scale
were to strike, Lane County would
suffer $1.6 billion in economic
losses and experience heavy dam
age to its structures, roads and es
sential services.
Clingman said the new map can
be used to prioritize seismic retro
fitting, plan the city’s future
growth and determine where not
to locate vital services. Though
Clingman stressed that earth
quakes are a threat, he did not
want people to panic.
“It is not something I expect
people to be awake at night worry
ing about, but it should be a con
cern,” he said.
Historical buildings
at risk on campus
The University and downtown
Eugene are both in low risk areas
for severe earthquakes, but Cling
man said older and unsafe build
ings would be damaged regardless
of how hard the ground shook.
“Even in the safest part of town,
a poorly constructed building
would be expected to fare poorly,”
he said.
Oregon State University engi
neering professor Thomas H;
Miller estimated that Eugene and
Springfield would suffer a mini
mum of $110 million in economic
losses from either a small earth
quake of a 6.5 magnitude in the
general area, or a major earthquake
of 8.5 off the coast. Miller, howev
er, said the report only provided a
minimum estimate because it
looked at 100 buildings in each
city and could not be extrapolated
for the rest of the cities’ buildings.
Gary Fritz, University architect
for the Facilities Department, said
earthquakes are a concern because
the University has many historical
buildings, including Deady, Vil
lard, Fenton and Friendly, which
were built long before seismic ac
tivity was taken into account. Fritz
said some seismic retrofitting has
been done for a few buildings,
such as McArthur Court, that were
at risk and are frequently used by a
large number of people.
A preliminary study for the
complete seismic overhaul of the
University determined it would
cost $50-70 million. Fritz said the
Legislature will consider a plan
next year to use state funds to help
cover the costs of the project, but
in the meantime, the campus will
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in an earthquake. V
just have to accept the risk of
earthquakes.
“It’s like the risk of getting on an
airplane — you may not get off.
You just have to live with a level
of risk,” Fritz said.
Nancy Wright, University
Housing director of capital im
provements and facilities, said
that housing initiated a seismic
study of its own buildings a few
years ago and determined which
buildings had not been built to
code.
Housing decided to follow a
policy that whenever a building
needed renovation work, seismic
improvements would be includ
ed, she said.
Though the Bean complex re
cently received seismic improve
ments, Wright said the risk has
never been too great to the dorms
because of their design.
The buildings “are sturdy be
cause we have all these walls,”
Wright said.
A general status of the campus’
seismic health would be hard to
ascertain, said Christine Theodor
opoulos, an architecture professor
who studies the effects of seismic
activity on buildings. She said
each building behaves differently
in an earthquake.
Theodoropoulos did say that
older buildings are at risk because
they tend to be built with unstable
materials that are brittle and “tend
to have more catastrophic prob
lems.”
Theodoropoulos said the Uni
versity should make seismic im
provements whenever it can and
take steps to ensure that equip
ment, overhead lights and furni
ture are secure to prevent injuries
sustained inside buildings during
an earthquake.
An unpredictable threat
Sue Perry, who holds a masters
degree in geology and studied the
earthquake risk in the Eugene and
Springfield areas for her thesis,
said the most damaging earth
quake the area could have would
come from the Cascadia Subduc
tion fault line approximately 150
miles offshore.
The fault is where the Juan de
Fuca plate is slowly moving below
the North American plate, and any
earthquake from the fault would
register no less than eight on the
Richter scale.
Other earthquakes in the Eu
gene area could be crustal earth
quakes, triggered by small fault
lines in the earth’s crust, or bend
ing moment earthquakes, trig
gered by faults in the Juan De Fuca
plate where it is already beneath
the North American plate.
Perry said the last subduction
earthquake occurred on Jan. 26,
1700, when written records in
Japan registered a tsunami that co
incided with the time period of ge
ologic evidence for a huge earth
quake on the Oregon coast. If an
earthquake of that size were to
strike today, the effects would be
devastating and not mitigated by
the distance to the fault line.
“There would be plenty of ener
gy coming to the local area, even
though the fault is so far away,”
Perry said.
Using the geological evidence of
past subduction earthquakes, Per
ry said geologists have determined
that there have been 12 in the past
7,000 years, and usually occur
every 500 years. This timetable
has a large margin of error, Perry
said, and was not rigid.
“We could expect another one
at anytime,” she said.
Director
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Now, the hiring committee is
torn between two finalists. A final
decision might come as early as
next Wednesday, provided the hir
ing committee can agree on a
choice, Chen said.
“We’re actually in a pretty hard
position right now because we
have a couple of excellent candi
dates,” Chen said. “So many peo
ple have so many different ideas
what the position should do.”
But Atchley said overall, the
hiring committee is looking for the
same qualifications in candidates.
“I don’t think we’re looking for
different things,” she said. “We’re
looking for someone who is going
to do the best job. I think we all
have that in common.”
ASUO President elect Jay Bres
low, who is also on the hiring com
mittee, said he has been pleased
with the hiring process, but the fi
nal decision between what he said
are two highly qualified candi
dates will be difficult.
“We brought in the candidates
and lots of people got to meet
them,” he said. “It’s always hard to
find someone for a position like
this.”
Breslow said in arriving at its
decision, the hiring committee has
to consider the community and
the network that the MCC has al
ready established, which only
makes the choice that much more
difficult because the new director
will have to fit into an environ
ment that has already been creat
ed.
Both Breslow and Atchley said
they were hoping for a larger ap
plicant pool. Atchley said the rea
son the committee only received
20 applications could be that it has
been working on a tight time line
and was only able to advertise for a
brief amount of time.
Atchley said some excellent
candidates applied, but nobody
had all of the attributes she was
hoping for, such as experience
working with students on an equal
basis, major commitments to di
versity, working effectively with
students and administrators, or
ganizing and managing an office
and budget and being able to help
students realize their goals.
“I think that none of the candi
dates met every single criterion
perfectly,” she said.
But she added that over time
each of the three candidates still in
contention has the potential to live
up to all of the committee’s expec
tations.