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Show - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, A6 Page Thursday, September 27, 1990 Experts preach calm after quakes Weather j. NEW HAMBURG, Mo. (AP) -Experts preached calm after an earthquake that rattled people in six states, saying it isn't necessarily a precursor to the catastrophic Big One predicted for December. No major damage or injuries were reported from Wednesday morning's quake or a second, smaller one that night. The quakes, felt in Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, were in the New Madrid Fault zone. For months, people along the seismic zone have been worrying about scientist Iben Browning's 0 contention that there's a chance for a major quake there on or about Dec. 3. Many scientists have dismissed the prediction. Doug Wiens, professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, said there is no extra cause for alarm. "I'm worried about this sort of hysterical tone that's come out, where people are planning to take Friday, Sept. 28 forecast Accu-Weath- for daytime conditions and high temperatures Seattle 71 lXjSalt Lake City' 771111111 ; r kiyryyyy " San Francisco iW Va 50-5- Denver 66 R jAj Albuquerque 81 1 Los Angeles 77 I Pacific Ocean SHOWERS RAIN Via - Inc. 1990 TSTORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE PT. CLOUDY SUNNY CLOUDY Associated Press GraphicsNvt Theater LOS ANGELES (AP) owners and filmmakers are giving the new movie rating NC-1- 7 mixed reviews, saying it offers improvements over the ruinous X rating but still may prove troublesome. The Motion Picture Association of America eliminated the X rating on Wednesday, replacing it with NC-1for no children under 17 admitted. It said the new label does not immediately carry the commercial stigma of X, which is so strong that many theater chains including won't the nation's two largest show films and many newspapers won't carry ads for them. The MPAA also said it will give film companies and theater owners more details on films it rates R, noting violence, sex and language. 7, Highs in upper 70s By The Associated Press UTAH Statewide: 80s. Lows mostly in the 40s to mid 50s. IDAHO upper Partly cloudy Idaho: Partly cloudy through Friday with a through Friday with scattered Southeastern mainly during the afternoon and early nighttime hours. Breezy southerly winds during the daytime hours mainly in the western valleys. Highs mostly in the 70s to middle 80s. Lows generally in the 40s and 50s. chance of mainly afternoon and evening showers or thunder-shower- s. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s. Lows in the upper 30s to midOs. West central mountains: Friday areas of morning fog. Otherwise mostly sunny. East central mountains: Fri- showers and thundershowers Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo: Friday partly cloudy with scattered mainly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Southerly winds from 10 to 20 mph during the daytime hours. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 40s and low 50s. Dixie: Friday partly cloudy with scattered mainly afternoon and evening showers or thundershowers. Southerly winds from 15 to 25 mph with gusty variable winds near thunder-shower- s. A day partly cloudy. slight chance of showers or thunder-showesome with brief heavy rain. Areas of night and morning fog. North central mountains: Friday patchy night and morning fog. Otherwise fair. rs NEVADA Northern and central Nevada: Scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly in the afternoons and evenings through Friday. Otherwise partly cloudy. Lows in the mid-30- s to mid-40Highs from 68 to 78. Southern Nevada: Partly cloudy Friday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Highs in the low 80s to low 90s. Lows in low 50s to low s. Extended forecast for state: Saturday through Monday fair to partly cloudy with afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday. Mostly fair Monday. Highs in the mid 70s to widely-scattere- d completely ridiculous," he said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the first quake Wednesday measured 4.6 on the Richter scale. The second was believed to be an aftershock and measured a preliminary 3.0, said David Stewart, director of the Center for Earthquake Studies in Cape Girardeau. Although the quakes were off the New Madrid Fault proper, they fell within the fault zone. Each year, about 200 measurable quakes occur in the zone, Stewart said, but only about three a year pack enough power to be felt. In fact, before Wednesday, three were felt this year: a 2.8 quake on Jan. 9, a 3.1 on Aug. 7, and a 3.4 on Aug. 29. Said Stewart: "We expect them every now and then. When they happen, they normally mean nothing." Although the quake was relatively minor, it was the second largest in the New Madrid Fault zone this century, said Stewart; The largest 5.0 hit in 1976 and was centered near Marked Tree, Ark. A quake of magnitude 7.1 which was mentioned in Brownwould be about ing's predictions 3,000 times more powerful than a quake of 4.6. Did Wednesday's shaker make residents more nervous? "Of course it does, are you kidding?" said Carolyn Tinsley, who owns a video rental store in Scott City, about 10 miles from the quake's epicenter of New Hamburg. "I'd like to move if I could." In New Hamburg, a town of about 200 in the Missouri Bootheel, students at the Kelso C--7 Elementary School felt the quake. "It sounded like people moving their desks up on the second floor," said eighth-gradJohn Koepp. "I wasn't scared." Moments before the temblor, teacher Donna Robert had been asking a student whether her moth- , er Y I ILL) MO. Madrid fault line I I Tjf' x ((QfJ ARK. j 1 w- -- r- - 100 miles AP er, who experienced a major earthquake in Alaska, might be interested in coming to class to talk about earthquakes. "It was like the voice of God speaking. I couldn't believe it," she said. PG and G ratings will The PG-1remain the same. 3, Universal Pictures' "Henry & June," a historical drama featuring some sex scenes, will be the first film bearing the NC-1- 7 rating, Universal said. "It's a great step," said Philip Kaufman, director of "Henry & June." "I'm just really delighted that we can show this film uncut in America and show the film the way I made it. It is not intended as a prurient film." Critics of the MPAA had been trying for months to change the system. They said the X rating, never copyrighted, had become synonymous with pornography because makers of hard-cor-e adult films used it freely. The new rating will be copyrighted. That means it cannot be used by porno producers unless they submit their films for MPAA review, something they never do because it costs up to $2,000 per film. Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, hosts of a syndicated movie-previeshow, applauded the new category. "It represents a victory for everyone who cares about truly adult films. I'm using adult here in the sense of mature, thoughtful, serious and intelligent not in the sense of 'dirty movies,' " Ebert said. "It's good news," said Dan Har-kin- s, president of the Harkins Theatres chain in Phoenix. "It takes some of the politics out of the rating system and our advertising will be strengthened." It was unclear whether newspapers and TV and radio stations w NASA identifies 83 potential CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A NASA team trying to pinpoint Columbia's dangerous hydrogen leaks has narrowed the list of to 83. possible sources "Any combination might actually be the culprit," said William Lenoir, head of NASA's space flight program. A hydrogen buildup in the shuttle's engine compartment during fueling last week forced NASA to call off its fourth attempt to send Columbia on an astronomy mission. Three of the postponements were caused by hydrogen leaks. The shuttle is grounded until all leaks are found and fixed. A nine-memb- er investigative team as- signed to the problem is scrutiniz ing every item in Columbia's crowded engine compartment as a possible source of leaks. "Even if the first thing they do is find a big, roaring leak, they will worry about how do we fix that leak, but they will continue everywhere else to look for things that might also be leaking," Lenoir said Wednesday. Workeis will remove insulation from each suspected part and then flush the system with room-temperatu- re helium, Lenoir said. If no leaks are found, the process will be repeated with a different crew and equipment "to be absolutely sure we haven't missed any leaks on Columbia thing," he said. So far, Columbia's leaks have appeared only when the shuttle's external tank is filled 'with highly flammable liquid hydrogen at super-cold would be more inclined to carry ads for movies bearing the NC-1- 7 mark. Laura Morgan, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Times, predicted advertisements would be judged on a combination of their artwork and critics' opinions on the movies' artistic worth. Bert Manzari, president of the Seven Gables chain in Seattle, said such an evaluation system could become unworkable. "It's really going to cause a dilemma for the papers," Manzari said. William Kartozian, president of the National Organization of Theater Owners, agreed that advertising NC-1- 7 titles could be difficult. "I hope the media will perceive that there's a difference between these films and skin flicks," said Kartozian. temperatures, which might cause shrinkage of a metal part and form the leak. To test for that possibility, the external tank will twice be filled with cold liquid hydrogen, around and in November. About a dozen TV cameras will be placed inside the engine compartment for both tests. NASA, meanwhile, is working to send Discovery aloft Oct. 6 with a satellite to study the sun's poles. The shuttle must fly within the weeks or else wait following mid-Octob- er more than a year for the planets to be in the right alignment. The space agency plans no tanking test for Discovery, the only shuttle in which hydrogen leaj have not been found. Such a check would take five days. A tanking test will be performed on Atlantis before its early Novem- ber flight. Hydrogen leaks were detected on the spacecraft in June. Lenoir said that he is hopeful Columbia can be back on track in December but that there is no timetable. "They're not driven by schedule. They are to go out and find the leak, find all of the leaks, and then we can get on with it," he said. 60s. Fair in most of nation By The Associated Press Fair skies prevailed over much of the nation today, and cooler air settled into the northern Plains. Today's forecast said a band of showers and thunderstorms was expected to extend from Illinois to Colorado. Showers also were likely in central California. Sunny skies were forecast, over a large area from the southern Plains to the Ohio Valley, and temperatures were expected to rise as much as 16 degrees above normal. Temperatures - - By The Associated Press Wednesday indicate previous day's high and overnight low to 8 Temperatures EDT. 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