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To: Steelguy who wrote (5790)	10/16/1999 10:49:00 AM
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Earthquake rocks Southern California Filed: 10/16/99 By ANTHONY BREZNICAN Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A magnitude-7.0 earthquake centered in the Southern California desert shook buildings from downtown Los Angeles to Las Vegas and Arizona early today. An Amtrak train was knocked off the tracks, but no serious injuries were reported. Amtrak said its Southwest Chief en route from Chicago to Los Angeles derailed in the Mojave Desert near Ludlow, a community on Interstate 40 more than 125 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There were 155 passengers on the 25-car train and none were injured, said an Amtrak official at the Wilmington, Del., operations center. The passenger cars remained upright, and Amtrak planned to take the passengers to Los Angeles by bus. Karen Kahler, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, said the quake hit at 2:46 a.m. and was centered 32 miles north of Joshua Tree, 100 miles east of Los Angeles. There were multiple aftershocks. The earthquake was felt for hundreds of miles across Southern California and at least as far away as Yuma, Ariz. There were reports of scattered power outages and transformer explosions. Downed power lines started small brush fires near Palm Springs. "That was a bad one. Things are bouncing around all over. But we are all right. I have to go and call the kids," Lucille Manning said from her home in Chino, east of downtown Los Angeles. The earthquake woke up tourists in Las Vegas, 170 miles from the epicenter. "I wasn't sure what it was," said John Fabian, who was staying on the 18th floor of the Mirage Hotel. "My wife hit me and said we've got to get ... out of here." Fabian's wife, Michele, added: "The whole place was shaking like crazy." Authorities in Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area said there were no reports of serious damage or injuries. "Most people just slept right through it," said Lt. Rich Paddock of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. "It shook everything pretty good, but that was about it." The few calls authorities received were from mostly from frightened people who were awakened by the quake and were curious about damage. The effects of the earthquake were more pronounced in the lightly populated region around the epicenter. California Highway Patrol dispatcher Joe Serrano in Barstow said a bridge on Interstate 40 was heavily damaged but the freeway remained open. Jacob Naylor, night manager at the Joshua Tree Inn in Joshua Tree, said the structure lost power but there was no sign of damage. "Twelve guests, all definitely awake. A couple in from Holland, definitely shocked. A couple in from the U.K. asked me, `Is this normal?"' Naylor said. "They're all taking it rather well, kind of excited. Vacationers, new experiences, what can I say?" In Yucca Valley, Dr. Daniel Injo said the Hi-Desert Medical Center was relying on emergency power, as was the San Bernardino County Sheriff's station in Joshua Tree. Gerri Hagman, owner of the Homestead Inn bed-and-breakfast in Twentynine Palms, near the epicenter, said she had a lot of broken dishes and things thrown off shelves. She couldn't see any structural damage. "I'm a native Californian and I've been in a lot of them; this was a whopper," Hagman said. In Ridgecrest, a small community about 250 miles north of Los Angeles, groceries toppled from shelves and awoke residents, but officials said there were no reports of damage or injuries. "I was asleep and shaken out of bed," said Rachel Holden, an editor at the Ridgecrest Daily Independent. Caltech at first said the temblor was an aftershock to the 1992 Landers magnitude-7.3 earthquake but then said it was not. The Landers quake was followed a few hours later by a magnitude-6.5 quake in the San Bernardino Mountains in which one person was killed. There have been more than 70,000 aftershocks. On Jan. 17, 1994, a 6.7-magnitude quake struck Northridge, just north of Los Angeles, killing 72 people and causing an estimated $40 billion in damage. "The level of shaking is comparable to what was experienced in Northridge," said Lucy Jones, a seismologist with U.S. Geological Survey at Caltech. "The good news is that there are fewer people out there."