European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The vol. 50, no. 365 350 tuesday april 14,1992 d 8693 a North sea Amsted by / Netherlands earthquake rocks Northern Europe s4s Susan Harris Heinsberg Germany apr a rare and powerful earthquake roasted people from their Beds across Northern Europe Early monday injuring More than 45 and knocking an 880-Pound chunk of colognes gothic Cathedral through its roof. In Bonn officials said a 79-year-old woman died of a heart attack that they attributed to the quake. Readings of the quakers magnitude varied from 5.4 at the . Seismological Center in Boulder colo., to 6.3 at Germany s seismological Central Observatory in Erlanger said Mike Weber a scientist at the German Institute. He said the quakers official Reading would probably be set at 5.8. It so that would make it the strongest quake in the Region in More than 200 years. Quot my first impression was not that it was an earthquake a said Heinz Hermanns standing by a Heap of bricks that fell from his 100-year-old House in Heinsberg. Quot its an old House. I thought the roof had  the epicentre of the 3 21 . Quake was near the dutch town of Roermonde North of Heinsberg a a City of 36,000 people a and close to the Borders of the Netherlands Germany and Belgium said Hein Haak of the Royal dutch weather Institute. A nuclear Power reactor in Germany a Hessen state was shut Down As a precautionary measure officials said. No damage was reported at the biblis nuclear Power Complex near Worms. German police said 31 people were injured while 15 were reported Hurt in the Netherlands most after running in the streets and being hit by bricks and roof tiles. A nearly half ton Stone ornament on Cologne Cathedral plunged through the roof of the 13th-Century landmark but nobody was injured. In Berkenbosch a Village just outside Roermonde that appeared to be the hardest hit in the Netherlands police spokesman Harry Clabbers said a medieval Church was on the verge of collapse. Heinsberg appeared to have the most quake related injuries 25, three of whom were hospitalized said see quake on Page 2 rookies scared by worst Jolt in decades by Chuck Roberts staff writer Camino Harris thought her 28th birthday might be her last monday morning when she received an Early Wake up cafe from an earthquake that rumbled across Belgium Germany and the Netherlands. Quot i thought i Wasny to going to live another year a said Harris a Secretary at Rose Barracks in bad Kreuz Nach Germany. Harris said she started praying As her bed was shaking and the wind Chimes in her apartment were a shaking like  her husband slept through the entire event. Mondays earthquake measured Between 5.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale according to preliminary reports. While one death was reported and extensive damage was listed throughout the Region there were no reports of injuries or damage at american military facilities. Capt. Mike rein who has lived through two earthquakes in California and a tragic earthquake that struck Italy in 1976, described mondays quake in Span Dahlem Germany As Quot a Good  rein who was born in California and was stationed at Edwards fab there said that californians tend to ignore minor earthquakes but this Quot would have definitely had people  mondays quake a though the worst in the area in decades a was nothing compared with one that rein remembered in 1976 when he was a 12-year-old at Avi Ano a Italy where his father was stationed in the air Force. That earthquake registered 6.9 on the Richter scale and killed More than 900 people. Quot ill never forget that As Long As i live Quot he said. Rein said about half the people he talked with slept through mondays earthquake but it was a hot topic for those who woke up. Quot you could Tell inc earthquake rookies a rein said. One of the Quot rookies was Mirjam Schouten who quickly recovered her wits after the quake struck her apartment near the Headquarters of the Allied forces Central Europe in Brun sum Netherlands. Quot actually i enjoyed it. It was fun Quot said Schouten who is an intern at the accent Public affairs office. But see rookies on Page 2marines drop Concrete blocks to slow lava by the associated press Zafferano Etna Italy a military specialists blasted a lava flow on mount Etna with High explosives monday and . Marine helicopters dropped huge Concrete blocks into the Stream to slow its Advance on a Village. Quot War has just started on the lava said col. Giorgio Vassale who supervised part of the italian military a attempt to use explosives to collapse a Tunnel of hardened lava through which the molten lava has been flowing since mid december. The lava flow reached the Edge of this town of 7,000 on sunday. A you can hardly Stop the lava but you can slow it Down. Today a operation should give us and the villagers some time a col. Fernando Falco said. A loud Boom echoed throughout the Valley shortly see marines on Page 2 map a nighttime photo highlights Rivers of glowing steaming lava flowing Down mount Etna toward a sicilian Village