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Shake
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quake, and I needed to get out of
the building,” she said.
Novkov said it was the first earth
quake she experienced and “hope
fully, my last.”
While she said she isn’t too con
cerned about aftershocks, Novkov
said she hopes the University takes
the proper steps to ensure PLC
doesn’t collapse in any later
quakes.
“I hope they check this building
over thoroughly, and soon,” she
said.
Dawna Miller, a city manager’s
assistant who was inside City Hall
during the earthquake said “it felt
like my chair was rocking forward
and back, forward and back.”
“We just had everybody leave the
building. We checked the building
for structural damages and found
none,” she said.
Police blocked off Eighth Avenue
between High and Pearl Streets
during the evacuation, forcing a
few Lane Transit District buses to
reroute.
Ike Jenson, Lane County emer
gency management coordinator,
said his office has received no re
ports of earthquake-related damage
in the county.
And Greta Pressman, campus re
lations director with Facilities Ser
vices, said there was “no reported
damage,” though she heard several
campus buildings rocked through
the earthquake that lasted less than
a minute.
Doug Toomey, an associate pro
fessor of geology, said while earth
quakes can be destructive, they also
relieve some of the seismic pres
sure along continental plates that
may prevent a large quake in the fu
ture.
“Whenever there’s an earth
quake, it does release pressure,” he
said.
He said the Northwest is a prime
area for earthquakes because it is
near where the Juan de Fuca conti
nental plate is slowly moving be
low the North American plate, cre
ating a subduction area.
“That gives rise to considerable
types of stress,” he said.
While California has the reputa
tion for earthquakes, Toomey said
they are more frequent in Washing
ton and Oregon then most people
realize. He said seismic activity is
common, but just on a geological
time scale that is far different from
a human sense of time.
“It’s probably rare on our scale,
but it’s not that rare for the area,” he
said.
Quake
continued from page 1
walls at the governor’s mansion, de
clared a state of emergency, freeing
state resources and clearing the way
for federal aid. Similar declarations
were made by Seattle leaders.
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Screams erupted at a Seattle ho
tel where Microsoft founder Bill
Gates was addressing an education
and technology conference. He was
whisked away as his audience bolt
ed for the exits. Some people were
knocked down by others trying to
get out. Overhead lights fell to the
floor.
There was damage to a number of
other buildings, mostly minor
cracks and broken glass. Bricks fell
from the top of Starbucks headquar
ters onto cars parked below and
piled up on sidewalks in the popu
lar Pioneer Square neighborhood,
the scene of Mardi Gras celebrations
the night before.
Mayor Paul Schell said city crews
were examining buildings for safe
ty. He said preparations and seismic
remodeling had paid off.
“I think the city has been very
mindful of earthquake risks,” Schell
said. “We have no catastrophic
damage.”
Environment
continued from page 1
called the arrangement a sell-out.
“There is nothing we can do as
far as preventing that other than
asking people to respect each oth
er’s ideas and to keep an open
mind about things and allow other
people to speak,” Landis said.
Law student Jennifer Soice, one
of the four organizers this year,
said she felt the hecklers acted
within reason.
“I hope people take away ac
ceptance of other people’s ideas,
and understand that it is a forum
and you don’t have to agree with
everything that is said,” she said.
“But I think it was the right thing
to do.”
She said many new organiza
tions and ideas have begun at pre
vious conferences. Owl Litigation,
protection for owls, and E-Law, en
vironmental protection through
the law, were created here, she
said.
Adams said he is encouraged by
the number of ideas that come
from the conference. He said it is
easy to forget about the important
issues in the environment.
“When you’re doing your own
work, it is easy to become focused
on one thing and forget about the
big picture,” he said. “When you
come here and there are 20-plus
panels, you get your eyes opened
to so many new ideas.”
“There is a sense of urgency,”
Landis said. “The environment is
not going to get any better by itself.
It has got to be something that
takes work on everyone’s part to
make sure it is there for our grand
children to enjoy.”
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