European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes California quake Friday january 21,1994 m disaster Relief Effort to focus on shelters for dispossessed president Clinton squats As he surveys a Crater on Balboa Avenue in the Northridge area of the san Fernando Valley on wednesday during a visit to the earthquake stricken area. Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan is second from left. Los Angeles a a night and a forecast of rain Lent urgency thursday to efforts to find shelter for the tens of thousands of people driven fro their Homes by the earthquake v we need to get those people out. It s unhealthy out there said recreation and Parks department spokesman Jackie Tatum. She said about 20,000 people were Camp ing in the City s Parks. Many More slept in county Parks As the overnight temperature wednesday dipped into the Low 40s. Thousands of commuters Rose hours be fore Dawn to get an Early jump on their morning drive. They succeeded in a Way they were the first to be stuck in traffic. Getting people out of encampments and makeshift quarters in their own front Yards and into More permanent shelter was a top priority thursday housing and Urban development Secretary Henry g. Cisneros said we re finding More housing was dam aged than we thought Cisneros told Abc to thursday from the san Fernando Val Ley -. When you Fly Over it you really can t see the problem. But then you get Down on the Road or in front of the House and you see that it s fallen off its foundation and it is completely unsafe and is going to have to be  Cisneros said 11 disaster Aid application enters would be open by thursday. Rain was expected by saturday night raising the risk of mudslides in neighbor hoods shaken by the quake and stripped of ground cover by autumn s firestorm. Hopefully by then we will find some plastic or something for a Little More Protection from the rain said Jose Murillo one of 18 people huddled under a Sheet stretched Between two cars in a Chatsworth Park. Or maybe we could find real  late wednesday police closed the main Street Between Hollywood and Burbank s movie and to studios after noticing Possi ble cracks in a Bridge along the route. Ted Varnadoe a lighting technician on the Columbo set in Universal City was among those turned away at Dawn As he commuted from Mission Hills to the North. There s 5,000 people who work there at Universal and i d say 25 percent of them come this Way he said. President Clinton surveyed the damage across the still shaking City on wednesday. California Institute of technology seismologists said about 1,500 aftershocks had been recorded since monday s earthquake including five of magnitude 5.0 or greater. Clinton said housing vouchers would help refugees pay for temporary shelter. It was t immediately Clear where. But the word had t filtered Down to people camping in Parks and front Yards. They never passed out anything said Juan Francisco Magallanes whose family built a lean to of wooden fruit crates at a Park in the san Fernando Valley which bore the Brunt of monday s 6.6-magnitude quake. The Only people to come by today were the police who told us they were giving out stuff Relief supplies at the Shell  Federal emergency management Agency workers planned to hand out fliers de tailing the help available. A snapshot of the damage the death toll Rose to 47 and about 4,500 people were injured. A 59-year-old doctor was killed minutes after the Earth quake in an Accident at an intersection where traffic lights weren t working officials said thursday. Two people were killed thursday morning when a helicopter inspecting a quake damaged Arco pipeline crashed into Power lines said Arco spokesman Al Greenstein. Gov. Pete Wilson said the damage toll could match Hurricane Andrew s $30 billion the costliest natural disaster in . History. About 40,000 san Fernando Valley residents remained without water and thousands of others were asked to boil possibly contaminated water. Workers re paired one of the aqueducts that carry water to 2.5 million la s Angeles Resi dents. Repairs continued on two other quake damaged aqueducts. About 35,000 customers still lacked natural Gas 40,000 households and Busi Nesses were without water and 52,000lacked electricity thursday. Geologists try to find fault that gave la. The shakes los Angeles a underneath this City s skyscrapers Hillside Homes bungalows and boardwalks the area is Laid out like a 3-d geological Jigsaw Puzzle. Its hundreds of pieces ranging from a few Hundred feet to tens of Miles across Jostle for position As monstrous chunks of the Earth push  s Why geologists like James f. Dolan at the California Institute of technology Are hav ing so much trouble figuring out precisely what happened in monday s 6.6-Rmgnitude Earth quake and what that Means for the future. But they re coming closer every hour. By air and by foot Dolan and his colleagues this week found clues in a gaping Hole at Balboa Boulevard Dolan found a Gas line compacted like an accordion yet perfectly straight. The quake whose epicentre was below nearby Northridge moved North to South in the pipe s exact direction. On Amestoy Avenue Dolan found Cindy Carter s House a foot closer to Harold o Hal Lorn s across the Street. The Street lies on a half mile crack that was the quake s Only sur face appearance. Ground Zero Dolan Calls it. South of the Valley in West los Angeles colleagues examined three fallen sections of the nation s busiest freeway directly Over what used to be la Cienega swamp. Developers paved it Over 75 years ago leaving a wet glob of soil under the neighbourhood. The extensive freeway damage could be explained by the soil underneath the scientists said. Some soils and rocks Are better than others at amplifying damping or transmitting earthquake Energy. Altogether the extent of the damage from monday s quake reinforced scientists belief that a quake not nearly As powerful As the Long feared big one could be catastrophic. The Earth s crust is made of vast pieces called  basically metropolitan los Angeles situated at a Bend in the Border Between the Pacific plate to the South and the North american plate to the North was crushed. On average los Angeles is being compacted North South at a rate of about a half Inch a year. What Dolan must do is under stand How the abrupt deadly shaking monday is related to the Pacific plate s Long and slow journey 2 inches a year past los Angeles toward Alaska. Scientists have tentatively faults under los Angeles Cross sectional View source California Institute of technology a Kart Tats blamed monday s quake on the Frew fault. It starts 15 Miles underneath the san Fernando Val Ley and runs 10 to 15 Miles toward the san Gabriel mountains. On tuesday when aftershocks hit As far As 100 Miles North of the initial temblor scientists also began to line up other suspects faults directly below the san Gabriel mountains. Scientists have said there is a 60 percent Chance that the big one a catastrophic quake of 8 or More on the Richter scale will occur within 30 years on the huge san Andreas fault in the desert East of los Angeles