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Show r It may be that our faults are related to their faults ! believe? Evidently, announcer number one and announcer number two were not getting together with announcer number three. I could have understood the whole thing if it would have been on different dif-ferent channels that we were getting conflicting reports, but, no, these were right on the same channel. It just so happened that while L.A. was rocking or rolling to and fro, a bunch of earthquake "experts" were meeting in Salt Lake City. At least this gave them something of interest to talk about. The next day all the schools in the area had an earthquake drill to be sure the kids knew how to jump under their desks if an earthquake really happened. One would think that L.A. has had a lot of these drills because they are so earthquake prone down there. Yet, contrary to all advice, most people ran from their buildings into the streets where they could be crushed by falling debris. Sounds like the drills have done them a lot of good! Of course, if you are in a 30 story building and things begin to shake really bad, I'd probably head for the ground, too. I saw the movie "Earthquake" several times and I'm pretty sure that George Kennedy Ken-nedy would not be around to save me so I'd head for the lower floors and the streets, advice or no advice. The people in the high rises were told to leave their buildings, though, so I heard. I'll bet most of them were not told twice. This summer when we were in Washington we went to look at Mt. St. Helens. As I looked at films and pictures and displays of the devastation and how the people were forewarned to stay off the mountain, I wondered how some folks, Ifr I D Harry Truman guy, could Vi ci stayed there and taken r chances. j re If the people in theknowtold;- ' bi stay off the mountain, I'd t bi stayed off the mountain. In lie probably been the first one tc : to After all, I am a chicken-hemp w allissaidanddone.IamalME La So, if the earthquake 'ty. in say there is no relation betee: Ja; L.A. quake and the onesiwr:- pai Utah, I will have to believe k the guess. But are they really si.-, T are not related? had ' bed By MARCELLA WALKER They say that the people in Southern California are getting rather nervous and almost paranoid since this rash of earthquakes have occurred. I don't blame them. Sounds like Mother Nature is in the throes of a nice game of "Rock-a-bye Baby" and I'd just as soon be here. All those little "shockers" happening hap-pening out in the deseret west of Brigham City are a bit scary. I enjoy listening to all the earthquake ear-thquake "experts" say that the quakes in California are not related in any way to the little tremors they have been feeling in Box Elder County. How do they know for sure? I mean it would seem to me that the earth only has one crust and it is related in that it is one big ball. -Where the oceans are there are just big dents full of water in that same crust. I know there are all these different plates and slipping and sliding takes place and high places can fall and become low. But, in spite of all that. The crust is still the crust and it is all related. Maybe we can't feel an earthquake ear-thquake here that occurs halfway around the world but sensitive seismographs can. The Wasatch Fault and the San Andreas Fault are quite far apart, but if the San Andreas slipped really bad, maybe the Wasatch Fault would slip a little, too. They keep saying that California is one day going to drop into the ocean. There are the California optimists who say that every thing east of the San Andreas Fault is going to one day drop into the Atlantic Ocean. The earthquake "experts" said, shortly after last week's powerful quake in the Los Angeles area, that this was still not "the big one." They could say that because they were still able to do their news broadcast while standing on good old terra firma. If it would have been "the big one" they would not have been able to do their newscast, unless it was from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. I was listening to television when they broke in with a special bulletin and reported on. the L.A,.quake. -, They said that they were not sure of the amount of damage or injuries at that point as there had been power outages and downed telephone lines. Later, on the same channel, they came back and said that the Bur-bank Bur-bank airport had been damaged and there was reports of injuries and possible deaths. They had television cameras out and had taken pictures of the damage at the airport which they showed on TV. Shortly later, still on the same channel, another announcer came on and said that there had been a rolling type earthquake in the L.A. area but that there were no reports of damage or deaths. Now, I ask you, what are you to |
