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Relief: Campus groups rally for tsunami victim support
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“Campus support for this is phenomenal,” Ritley said.
“People are really generous. They’ll walk up and drop $20
without any thought. ”
In an OSPIRG meeting Tuesday night, University pre-busi
ness administration student Susan Woodard suggested a
“concentrated day of tsunami relief” on Jan. 18 for OSPIRG
to raise more funds to donate to Oxfam, Ritley said.
“We’d like to put stations throughout campus where peo
ple throughout the day can put in as much or as little as they
see fit,” Ritley said. “One of the ideas is to have it be kind of
a ‘skip-your-coffee’ day where the money you would nor
mally spend on a latte or something, you’d actually put that
money in a jar to go toward disaster relief. ”
Ritley said her group still needs to contact University ad
ministrators to get their “encouragement and support,” but
was confident they would “recognize how crucial this is
and how great the need is right now.”
OSPIRG also plans to contact University Housing to see
if students’ excess meal points at the end of the week
could be donated to the disaster relief.
Sat Pavan Khalsa is a local woman who was raised in
India and is heading up a growing group of volunteers that
gathered Monday evening at her south Eugene home to
begin coordinating efforts to host a fundraising event.
“When something like this hits, we really need to look
at ourselves as human beings and put aside differences,”
Khalsa said. “We just need to help our brothers and sisters
and form a united group now. ”
At Monday’s meeting, about 20 volunteers decided to
host a benefit dinner with entertainment and a silent auc
tion. The relief group, which has received e-mails from 30
to 40 interested volunteers, is researching different chari
ties that will offer long-term relief to tsunami-ravaged areas
by providing health care, housing and schooling support.
Those at the meeting divided into three smaller groups to
organize the different facets of the fundraising event. One
group is finding a location for the event, a second group is
researching charities and the third group is contacting
people to help donate to the event.
A few Indian restaurants from the Eugene area have
agreed to cater the dinner. The group is talking to different
artists to donate work for the silent auction as well as talking
to local businesses to donate goods and services.
“There will be food, entertainment, a raffle, the silent auc
tion and a slide show of the disaster area to show people
what their money will be helping,” Khalsa said.
Leslie Brockelbank, who is volunteering with the group,
said students can make the event a huge success.
“The most powerful tool is word of mouth and just pass
ing information along,” Brockelbank said. "We are putting
this fundraiser together quickly, and every person will help. ”
Brockelbank chose to be a part of the Eugene Tsunami
Relief Fund because it is the first local group that she heard
of, but she was attracted to the group because of the cultural
base and the diversity the group offers.
“There is a lot of diversity, but many people have Indian
connections,” Brockelbank said. “It makes it much more
specific about where the money goes. It’s neat to do this
with a group that really cares about a particular place.”
After a meeting Thesday night, the ASUO wants to collect
funds for tsunami victims by organizing a candlelight vigil
in the EMU Amphitheater, International Student Advocate
Laila Taraghi said. At the vigil, set for the evening of Jan. 14,
students could both show solidarity and give donations,
Taraghi said.
Some volunteers were compelled to get involved for
more personal reasons.
Volunteer Michael Carrigan, who is helping with the
group organized by Khalsa, said he has traveled exten
sively through the areas affected by the tsunami, which
helped motivate him to get involved.
“I have been to the areas that are devastated,” Carrigan
said. “I want to give something back to the people who
have given so much to me. ”
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Wave of assistance
Charity officials expect donations
for tsunami victims to stream in
with the biggest recipient so far
being the American Red Cross.
As of Tuesday its pledged
donations totaled $92 million.
Tsunami aid raised by some top
American relief organizations
In millions
American Red Cross $92
Doctors
Without Borders ft 20
UNICEF* | 20
Catholic
Relief Services 8 15
Oxfam America if 15
World Vision USA 15
Save the Children B15
.CARE USA l H.
International
Rescue Committee 2
Total aid raised *u s fund
by American relief organizations
About
$2.3 billion
So far
more than
$200 million
Sept. 11,2001 Tsunami
SOURCES: American Red Cross; AP
Association of Fundraising
Professionals; Chronicle of Philanthropy
Professor: Tsunami unlikely in Oregon coast's near future
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and Mineral Industries, said.
“The last tsunami Oregon suffered occurred in
1700 when the populace of Oregon consisted of
tribes,” Roddey said.
He added that scientists have not been able to find
clear records of the magnitude of damage and any
death tolls as a result of the deadly wave besides
village ruins, but the fragmented records they do
have come from oral history passed down by
those tribes and from records in Japan, where the
country experienced the catastrophic tsunami
hours later.
Roddey said for a tsunami to occur, it has to be
offshore and happen on the seafloor — there has
to be a very large earthquake (at least 7 magni
tude) or it can also be an underwater landslide.
The most common tsunami, he said, is an under
water earthquake that displaces the sea floor.
Oregon’s timeline is marked by dozens of
tsunamis that have been recorded in the 1,500
years scientists have been able to research, Roddey
said. While there is no consistent pattern, the av
erage interval between these tsunamis — which
can reach the 9.0 magnitude earthquake seen in
the Asian tsunami on Dec. 26 — is 400 to 600
years, with the longest interval lasting 1,000 years,
Weldon said.
What if a tsunami were to strike today?
“The problem in Oregon is its coastal estuaries,”
Weldon said, referring to towns and cities close to
the ocean, such as Florence, that are without the
benefit of rocky cliffs to protect them. “Florence
and other towns have a risk associated with
tsunamis. Properly warned, people can get away
from a tsunami.”
The tsunami warnings would come first with an
earthquake that would cause considerable damage,
leveling buildings and destroying cars and even
bridges. Injured Oregonians and those who did not
escape in time would find an enemy in the inaccessi
bility the earthquake and tsunami would cause, iso
lating townspeople from the mainland, Weldon said.
“Many of the communities will be isolated, but
they have to be prepared to take care of them
selves and neighbors,” said Weldon. “A very min
imal protection is all that’s needed until a lifeline
is connected.”
Both Weldon and Roddey recommend food, wa
ter and medicine kits that can last up to a week as
precautionary measures.
Tsunamis that have affected Oregon have not
always been caused by Juanda Fuca-North Ameri
can plate collision. The most recent tsunami Oregon
suffered came from Alaska, known as the Good Fri
day Alaska Earthquake, in 1964.
“The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake caused a
tsunami that washed down the coast,” Weldon said.
“(The tsunami) killed four people in the Oregon
coast.”
Tsunamis from even farther away could cause
damage. Roddey said that had the Southeast
Asian tsunami not been directed toward the Indi
an Ocean and instead toward the Pacific, the dam
age could go as far as the United States coast. In
those cases, people living on the coast would have
hours of preparation.
“Tsunamis cross entire ocean basins,” Weldon
said. “If something happened in the Philippines,
we’d have 10 hours of warning. ”
But the chance of a tsunami hitting Oregon any
time in the near future is minimal, according to the
Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral In
dustries, which estimates between 10 and 20 per
cent probability of a tsunami hitting Oregon in
the next 50 years.
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