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SEATTLE (AP) — A powerful
earthquake rocked the Northwest on
Wednesday, shattering windows,
showering bricks onto sidewalks and
sending terrified crowds running into
the streets of Seattle and Portland,
Ore. At least 25 people were injured,
none critically.
The strongest quake to hit Wash
ington state in 52 years temporarily!
shut down the Seattle airport^ ■
knocked out power, to hundreds of-
thousands of people, cracked then.-
dome atop the state Capitol ini? .
Olympia and briefly trapped aboijfj
30 people atop a swaying Space Neej-g v
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“Everyone was panicked,” said'
Paulette DeRooy, who scrambled
onto a fire escape in a Seattle office vi
building. — 7
The magnitude-6.8 quake hit af *.
10:54 a.m. and was centered 35 miles
southwest of Seattle, according to the
National Earthquake Information
Center in Golden, Colo.
Experts said its depth — in a fault
about 30 miles underground —
spared the Northwest catastrophic
damage. Damage was relatively
light in the highly developed region
with more than 3 million residents.
In recent years, millions of dollars
have been spent to remodel schools,
buildings and highways to protect
against earthquakes.
In contrast, the magnitude-6.7
Northridge quake in Los Angeles in
1994 struck just 11 miles under
ground. It caused an estimated $40
billion in damage and killed 72
people.
The Northwest quake was felt in
Vancouver and other parts of British
Columbia and in southern Oregon,
300 miles away. Buildings in down
town Portland, 140 miles from the
epicenter, swayed for nearly a half
minute and crowds gathered on
street corners to talk about the
quake.
Officials evacuated the city’s
Multnomah County Courthouse,
which has not had a major retrofitting
for earthquakes.
“I thought, ’If this building goes,
we’re doomed.’ I didn’t know what
to do. Do I hide under my desk or
what?” said Dee Stewart, 46, a ju
dicial assistant who works on the
fifth floor.
Of the 25 people treated at Seat
tle’s Harborview Medical Center,
five had serious injuries, a spokes
woman said. Authorities said two had
been struck by falling debris.
President Bush, on a two-day
trip to sell his budget, said he had
asked the director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency,
Joe Allbaugh, to travel to Seattle to
offer help.
“Our prayers are with those who
were injured and their families and
with the many thousands of people
whose lives have been disrupted,”
Bush said.
Quake jolts the
Pacific Northwest
A magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck the
Northwest on Wednesday. Its epicenter
was northeast of Olympia, Wash. The
quake was felt across the region and
into Canada.
SOURCE: U.S. Geological Survey
uyellow,wow eAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — A
/elr-old hoy found lying in a
MMATES awbank and not breathing had
summer sub Til butside in subzero cold for up
M, Rock hi* four hours, authorities said.
? J Les Hynek remained in critical
close io camp tKjjhon Wednesday at the Mayo ,
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3nton, Alberta, was playful and
VICES king and had been moved out of
intensive care, hospital officials
said.
Les was wearing only a diaper,
flannel pajamas and a sweat shirt
when he wandered from his home on
his parents’ dairy farm sometime af
ter 3 a.m. Tuesday. His father found
him unconscious almost four hours
later about 50 feet from the house,
Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Sgt.
John Vogler said.
The National Weather Service
said the temperature that night in
Eau Claire fell to 4 below zero.
Vogler said he had heard that the
boy’s body temperature was about
65 degrees soon after he was
found, but there was no immediate
confirmation.
Les had wanted to watch a video
and his father, Mark Hynek, told in
vestigators he must have fallen
asleep in a chair after he started the
videotape. He awoke at 6:40 a.m.,
realized his son was missing and
found him outside, Vogler said.
The boy first was taken to Luther
Hospital in Eau Claire, where he was
revived after being hooked up to a
' blood-warming machine, Sheriff’s
, Capt. David Schultz said. He later
was transferred to a hospital at the
Mayo Clinic.
“Frankly, from what I learned at
the scene, 1 certainly didn’t hold out
hope, but since then, the situation
has certainly brightened,” Vogler
said.
News in Brief
Violence erupts
on Mardi Gras
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mardi
Gras revelry turned violent early
Wednesday in Seattle, Philadel
phia and Fresno, Calif., with
crowds fighting, smashing store
fronts and looting.
Police fought back on horse
back and with pepper spray.
Some 100 people were ar
rested in Philadelphia. About 70
people were injured in Seattle,
and two of them were described
as in severely critical condition
with head injuries, one from a fall
off an overpass.
In Fresno, one person was
stabbed as an unruly crowd
stormed the city’s Tower District,
overturning portable toilets,
smashing windows and hurling
bottles at police officers.
By contrast, the more notorious
pre-Lenten partying in New Orleans
was largely peaceful, even though
upward of a million people — many
in costume and some in little more
than a smile — had jammed the
streets as Fat Tuesday jiggled and
giggled its way into Ash Wednesday.
Philadelphia revelers smashed
windows and dozens of people loot
ed a liquor store and other busi
nesses on. South Street, a trendy
stretch of bars and shops at the
edge of downtown. It took police
about an hour to clear the street.
“Disappointing is the only word
I can think to say,” city managing
director Joe Martz said early
Wednesday as he walked down the
street strewn with trash, broken
glass, empty beer cans and a few
lace bras. “It’s disgraceful.”
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