European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Quake danger not limited to California by Lee Siegel associated press eople outside quake prone California and Alaska have no reason to decl smug scientists warn killer earthquakes onco rocked America s Midwest East coast and possibly the Pasalic Northwest and Likely will do so again. The polenta a is Mere at any Given time to produce a catastrophe almost anywhere m the country said David Russ an assistant chief geologist for the . Geological Survey. The Only difference is the events Are better understood in California because they Are More frequent there. Earthquakes Are a National problem he said at uses Headquarters in Reston a. Earthquakes have occurred in a great Many of our slates significantly Large enough to produce some  giant and Large temblor occur far less often elsewhere in the United slates than in California and Alaska where the sparsely populated Aleutian islands Are often rocked by quakes measuring 7 on the Richler scale. Flut Central and Eastern states Don t have earthquake resistant construction practices so a Tot of those places could be in for a worse disaster when they do have an earthquake said seismologist Kate Hutton of the California Institute of technology in Pasadena. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded on seismographs every increase of one number Means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a Reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 65 an earthquake of 35 on the Richler scale can cause slight damage in the local area. 4 moderate damage s considerable damage 6 severe damage. A 7 Reading is a major earthquake capable of widespread heavy damage. 8 is a great quake capable of tremendous damage Russ uses seismologist Tom healon m Pasadena resident Al Whittler calif., appear to be walking a Tightrope a aha slap a Rota part of Home damaged by los Angeles area quake this month. And seismologist Lynn Sykes of Columbia University s Lamont Doherty geological Observatory in Palisades. . Said four regions outside California and Alaska Are most Likely to be shaken by destructive Lorn blogs sooner or Laler the Central Stales where Lour quakes of up to 8.6 magnitude on the Richler scale ruptured Tho new Madrid to seismic zone during the  1811-12 the quakes were the largest in recorded history in the contiguous 46 Stales they killed several dozen people toppled Cabins snapped Trees temporarily reversed the Tow of the Mississippi River caused some damage in Chicago and Cincinnati and cracked pavements and rang Church Bells As far away As Washington. 0,c, new York and Boston. The East coast which was rocked by a quake approaching magnitude 7 near Charleston s.c., on aug. 31,1886, collapsing buildings in South Carolina and killing about 60 people the Pacific Northwest including Oregon Washington state and Vancouver Island. British Columbia. Heaton said growing evidence suggests the Region was ravaged by prehistoric 9-Magnilude Monsler quakes every 500 to 1,000 years inundating coastal areas with tsunamis or quake caused sea Waves. Sykes said evidence for  quakes is inconclusive but jolts up to 6.5 have occurred. The Nevada Utah Montana seismic zone which has been shaken by Large quakes including the 1959 Hebgen Lake mont., Shock that Sykes said killed about two dozen people in landslides. We certainly have to be prepared to expect Magnilude-6 earthquakes in various parts of the Northeast Sykes said. The places that Are More prone historically would be along the East coast including Boston. New York and Philadelphia and in the Northeast from Northern new York slate into Canada because the ground East of the Rockies is much older cooler and More Brittle than m the West quakes there Are loll Over areas 10 times Largi than in the West Sykes said slow Cornel by Isabel Wilkerson new York times Here Are signs of life on Detroit s Woodward Avenue the ones vital tumbledown main Street thai some there Long ago left for dead at the Southern end the once great Fox theater is being restored farther North the Detroit symphony is moving Back 1o orchestra Hall irom downtown Ford auditorium and the fanciest restaurant in town. The Whitney opened 10 months ago in a victorian mansion. Jwj the Avenue is overwhelmingly the province of transient loitering in vacant Tats Rathar than professionals venturing warily to dinner or a concert since anyone can remember. Woodward Avenue a everything in Detroit. It was the City s showcase Broadway and fifth Avenue tha main spoke from the suburbs and the divider of East and West. Woodward still a major commuter artery runs 30 Miles Northwest irom the Detroit River to the suburb of Pontiac changing personality in each of the half dozen towns it crosses. Ii was named after Augustus Brevoort Woodward a prominent Detroit judge and banker who insisted that the Street bearing his name actually Lead to the Woods and Noi just be named alter me the Street symbolized Detroit in All its Blue Collar glory from is huge Hudson s department store downtown to the Vernor s Ginger ale factory farther North. Now Woodward looks like 1940 London. Bolh Hudson s and the Vernor s Plant Are dosed. And up and Down the Avenue there Are Miles of Burnt and skeletal storefronts and old Heaters with letters missing from to marquees. The Street became atomic after tha Riols of 1967, when Many residents fled to the suburbs taking businesses with them. Now Woodward is a place where people watch pornographic movies for a Quarter or get a Motet room with a View of Rad Neon for $12 a night. It is lined with 24-hour liquor stores where clerks Cash welfare checks from behind Walls of Bullet proof Glass. It s  Eleanors Callahan manager of i Page 14 the stars and stripes rapid Rise i by Calvin Sims new York times Hen cellular Mobile telephones were introduced in the United slates four years ago. They were gadgets Only of the Rich and powerful now everyone irom drug dealers in Miami to Taco vendors in new York City has one the cellular phone on the Taco cart in Rockefeller Plaza helps its owner the nearby North of the Border cafe increase business said David Alwadish who operates the cafe. People can Call in their orders ahead of time and avoid the Long lunch lines he said. And when workers run out of ingredients they Call the restaurant and have More delivered without turning away customers to find a Public Telephone of fetch them  a new York stockbroker and Loyal Yankees an Julia Stella has never missed a game because of work. She often advises customers on buying end Selling irom the heart of Yankee stadium Over her portable cellular phone even those not engaged in Legat business have discovered the benefits of cellular phones much to the Chagrin of the police a growing number of Miami drug dealers now use the phones because they Are More difficult to Trace than Ordinary phones and because As with the Laco cart they help raise safes. Indeed then Are now 800.000 cellular phones in use in the United slates and they Are changing the Way americans communicate and conduct business. And thai number will Rise to More than three million by 1990. A Trade group the cellular telecommunications Industry association predicts saturday Ocer