Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 1, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Best rate Rice gig 5 1411 Henderson 9257420 491 Portage 78840401 Cert i in conditions May apply 1510 mans 9257423 3025 Portage 9257390 Canada news continued on 5 around Canada paramedics punished Montreal two ambulance attendants have been suspended without pay after they allegedly refused to provide assistance to a Man who collapsed and later three friends were at a club when one of them his friends put the 31yearold Man in car and then intercepted an ambulance they spotted on the Andre a spokesman for the ambulance said its alleged the friends asked the attendants for help last saturday and they saying their shift was Miracle Tot will walk Edmonton the Miracle baby who rebounded from nearly freezing to death will walk again on her own two her plastic surgeon Gary Lobay said yesterday he Doest believe Little Erikas severely Frostbitten feet will have to be it looks like her Heel pad will survive and a Good part of her foot and maybe All of he she should be Able to walk with maybe maybe or maybe minimal but at least she will be Able to walk on her he said its too soon to Tell if Erika will lose any fingers or heart doctor worried Toronto when John Millar looks to the future of heart disease and stroke rates in Hes not Vic president of Sti tit item or v says of obesity report if a 3tie in smoking suggest v plat4auing of stub Keisja temporary a very worry heart disease at Thi forefront both in terms of deaths and in terms of Millar pcs team up Ottawa Canadian Alliance arid tory maps who met for a Pri vate dinner say parliamentary not a formal Merg was on the some who attended the dinner meeting tuesday insisted their informal talks were about join ing forces in such venues As question period and commons what wont Peta do Ottawa what Jesus do that the question one animal rights group wants canadians to ask themselves this Paster before sitting Down to a plate of Turkey or in on the Christian Campaign would Jesus people for the ethical treatment of animals is hoping to convince Canuck carnivores the Messiah eat not p to make sure people get the v the Gro ii is distributing an easter card that depicts a knife wielding 2hrit standing in front of his apostles at the last slicing open a cows neck Ste blood spurts i nun Fanatan press March 2001 Canada world b1 business b7 tse listings 69 Mutual funds b10 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 Seattle Lucky this time quake jolts the Pacific Northwest a earthquake struck the Northwest its epicentre was Northeast of the quake was Felt across the Region and into Sievan Morgain press a Man checks to see if his car will Start after an earthquake put a Quick end to his downtown Seattle shopping quake occurred 50 pm underground scientists warn of far bigger jolts fes by Tot Paulson yesterdays magnitude earthquake was the second most powerful in the recorded history of the Pacific but the fact that it occurred nearly 50 Kilometres underground reduced its potential for the entered about 18 Kilometres North of occurred where the Juan de Fuca plate grinds against the North american Continental plate at the Speed of fingernails grow while that May not sound Power the Force of this slow motion collision is what gives this Region its main features jagged Mountain volcanoes and were Lucky this want a shallow said Tony a seismologist at the University of had the same strength quake occurred on the shallow Seattle Qamar there would have been More severe much greater a lot of aftershocks and the potential for a the Seattle fault is a seismically Active series of cracks about two Kilometres Down in the Rock stretching from Bremerton through Seattle Over to this one had a lot of the same characteristics As the 1949 said Craig senior seismologist for the geological Survey in the 1949 magnitude also was entered near it killed eight people and caused million Worth of damage in 1949 the second largest recorded quake in the until was a magnitude quake in it was Cen tired Between Seattle and killed seven and caused million damage in scientists said yesterdays while it caused a lot of rocking and int even close to the biggest quake the area could a Cascadia subduction zone quake a quake occurring off the coast where the Juan de Fuca plate and North american plate first meet could produce the planets biggest magnitude 8 or Duncan Livingston associated press Delores Knudson of salvages items from the crumbled remains of her fireplace and Hearth after yesterdays in the late us geologist Brian Atwater and his colleagues forever altered the Northwest seismically benign image by proving that a huge subduction quake hit the Region in 1700 an event witnessed Only by native americans but still decipherable through geological and treeing Analy in the scientists identified the Seattle fault and evidence of another terrific quake it produced some years heaving up the land six metres in places such As Bainbridge islands restoration Point and generating a tsunami in the until these the Pacific Northwest had been considered at risk mostly from deep quakes the like that Send tremors across great distances but dont shake too violently and Seldom produce any after its now Clear the Region can also get some violent quakes from the shallow or subduction a magnitude measure of a quake is an imperfect Way to assess its Poten tial there is no single seismic an earthquake sends out a series of High and Low frequency Puls some on the surface and some deep in the Earth As body identify ing the Type of quake shallow or subduction is As important As the magnitude All the signals Are used to calculate a process that varied wildly yesterday at the us seismology and it want because Erich Lenz was changing the paper on the seismometer Drums when the quake the Needle started shaking while i was changing the Lenz about 30 seconds after he saw the Nee dle the us Junior in civil Engi Neering Felt the tremor at the the Media swarmed in yesterday to report the first it was a magnitude the Guys at the geologic Survey in said it was even Magni tude scientists decided the measurements May have been off because of conflicting signals coming in from a quake that happened at about the same time in Al Seattle Post intelligencer source geological Survey whole Lotta Shakin some earthquakes in and British v i 28 2001 magnitude Southwest of at least a dozen people i magnitude epicentre in Pacific Ocea Tioff Queen Charlotte islands several Large i magnitude centred 10 Kilometres South of i magnitude off the coast South of Gold Felt on Central Vancouver i Way magnitude centred near i March estimated magnitude to Southeast of i magnitude 16 Kilometres South South West of i magnitude Kilometres Northwest of Klamath one i March magnitude off Oreg or 225 kilo metres West of Coos i magnitude centred i magnitude off the Oregon i april magnitude Seattle Tacoma seven i april magnitude eight i june magnitude magnitude West coast of Central Vancouver 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