Saturday, Nov. 26, 1988 / QUAKE SHAKES 1 t Tremors from Canada roll across the SANTA COMES TO TOWN - Santa Claus has a conver­ sation Friday with 7-year-old Stacy Lines of Manchester, left, before she and three other children are taken by a fire truck to St. James Church, where they flipped the switch I during the Qinnual 4f tree-lighting cere­ mony. The other children are, from left, Tara Norbut, 8, Michelle Fogarty, 10, and Conor Moore, 7, all of Manchester. The four children were selected to turn on the lights through M a drawing sponsored by the Manchester Herald. Story and more pictures on page 2. I iHanrhfBtpr Mpralb Saturday, Nov. 26, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents QUAKE SHAKES TOWN V Tremors from Canada roll across the Northeast... page 3 SANTA COMES. TO TOWN — Santa Claus has a conver­ sation Friday with 7-year-old Stacy , Lines of Manchester, left, before she and three other children ' are taken by a fire truck to St. James Church, where they flipped the switch during the annual tree-lighting cere­ mony. The other children are, from left, Tara Norbut, 8, Michelle Fogarty, 10, and Conor Moore, 7, all of Manchester. The four children were selected to turn on the lights through a drawing sponsored by the Manchester Herald. Story and more pictures on page 2. RagliMid PInto/ManohMMr HaraM W eather Canadian earthquake shakes region By Andrew Yurkovsky Manchester Herald REGIONALWEATHER Tremors from a severe earthquake in Canada Accu-Weathef ^ forecast for Saturday spread throughout the northeastern United States Daytime Conditions artd High Temperatures 1- and shook Connecticut and the Manchester area for up to a minute Friday night. In Manchester, police received about 50 phone calls from residenU who reported feeling the tremors, said Sgt. Barry Caldwell. The calls tied up phones at police headquarters for a 20-minute period. Just before 7 p.m., Caldwell said. “The phone was ringing off the hook,” he said. rfsTH ^2^23 (23 The first calls to police were from the Ambassador Drive area In the northeast section of 1*3*1 town. Others were from the East Center Street and Main Street areas. "Did we Just have an earthquake in town? asked a woman who called the Manchester Herald from AMndc Woodside Street In the southwest section, near the O cea n a 7*4* East Hartford town line. “Everything Just shook here for a few seconds,” she said. No one was reported injured in Manchester, and ,e »»M *oo>>-w»«m » t. me. The Associated Press reported no major damage or injuries elsewhere In Connecticut. Manchester and vicinity: Mostly sunny and Edward Fales of Falls Village said the tremors milder Saturday. High around 60. Light west wind. woke him as he was dozing in front of his television Saturday night: Increasing cloudiness. Low around r 80t. 40. Sunday; Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance Raglndd Plnto/ManchaMw Hxrald “I very distinctly felt the house shaking, shaking of showers. High 55 to 60. iighting ceremony in front of St. James y" north to south,” he said. “It shook maybe five times West coastal, east coastal: Mostly sunny and HOLIDAY SONGS — Residents sing ... It made me feel a little uneasy when I realized milder Saturday. High 55 to 60. Southwest wind Christmas carols in downtown Man­ Church. Music was provided by the what It was.” around 10 mph. ^turday night; Increasing chester Friday night aftertheannuai tree Saivation Army. The Geological Survey of Canada reported that cloudiness. Low in the mid 40s. Sunday: Mostly ‘"3' the earthquake’s epicenter was in Cicoutimi, cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. High 55 > Quebec, about 200 miies northeast of Montreal. An to 60. official at the survey said that quake was the largest Northwest hills, soBthwest Interior: Mostly sunny Hundreds brighten downtown in eastern Canada since 1935. and milder Saturday. High in the mid-SOs. Light ' The earthquake measured 6 on the Richter scale, southwest wind. Saturday night: Becoming cloudy. said Judith Hepburn, a geologist at the Weston A chance of showers by daybreak. Low 35 to 40. f ^ Observatory of Boston College, in Weston. Mass. An Chance of showers 30 percent. Sunday: Mostly earthquake of magnitude 6 Is considered capable of cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. High in for annual lighting ceremony causing severe damage. the mid 50s. By Andrew '^urkovsky Michelle Fogarty, 10, all of Manchester. Hepburn said that the epicenter of an earthquake Manchester Herald The four youngsters had the chance to become is where the effects of a quake are generally most 8GV0r0> f acquainted with Santa at the firehouse, before they L ottery Santa Claus didn’t have any presents when he took their trip down Main Street. But Stacy was The quake occurred at 6:46 p.m., Hepburn said, made his appearance at the tree lighting ceremony bashful about approaching Santa and had to be AP photo and was felt in the United States from Mhine to Ohio. State officials said a seismograph reading for in front of St. James Church Friday night. coaxed with a sleigh bell. night. The landslide occurred about 22 Connecticut daily Friday: 538. Play Four: 1878. All he had was his white beard, his big belly and LANDSLIDE — A guardrail on the side Connecticut was not immediateiy avaiiable. Frank Connecticut “Lotto” Friday: 4. 8,19. 27, SO, 83. his Jolly sense of humor. of a road near Quebec City is bent as a north of Quebec City on the road to Grandone, operations officer for the state Office of But that was enough to make a big crowd of Chicoutimi, Quebec, where the quake Civii Preparedness, said the tremors did not result of a landslide caused by an register on a seismograph at Northeast Utiiities’ children and adults happy. earthquake that shook Canada Friday was centered. Index Four youngsters were chosen in a Manchester Millstone nuclear power plant In Waterford. Herald drawing to turn on the lights. Together with Dr. Peter Dehlinger, professor emeritus of Santa Claus, they made their way down Main Street geophysics at the University of Connecticut at Riixlnaxa 41-44 OhltiiMrUMi in on a fire truck from the Town of Manchester Fire Storrs, said the Quebec quake generated tremors ClAMiflaH 45-48 Oplnlnn 18-10 Department headquarters on Center Street. Buiidings shook, power died containing about 1,000 times more energy than rVunIra 27-29 Rg|ll|^lAn 38-aO The tree lighting ceremony is sponsored by the * anything previously recorded in the state. He said 1 - 2-11 20. 37 Herald and the Downtown Manchester Association. the state experienced an earthquake of a magnitude Fnnia 21-36 figmlnr between 3.5 and 4 about 20 years ago in Long Island MatInn/WnrM fipnrta 41-48 Santa was mobbed by the crowd when he arrived 12-17 at St. James Church, and it took him a while to get to as quake surprised Canada Sound. a lamppost outside the church building, where the “We have not experienced anything like this (in switch for the tree lights is located. Connecticut) in recorded time,” Dehlinger said. Alan Cashman, the owner of J. Carman, Clothier, Dehlinger said the state was spared any damage ^attrhpstpr Hrrald , MONTREAL (AP) - A severe was felt in the northeastern said Adams. That quake mea­ because the center of earthquake was located about said that the turnout Friday was larger than last' United States. sured 4.5 to 4.9 on the Richter year’s, which was estimated at over 400. Cashman earthquake hit eastern Canada 500 miles away. USPS 327-500 VOL. CVIII, No. 49 Friday, shaking buildings, knock­ Tremors began at 6:46 p.m. scale. No serious damage was and others from the Manchester Association passed EST and lasted from 15 seconds to reported during that tremor. “The energy of this earthquake traveled about 500 out candy canes to those in the crowd. ing out power and frightening miles over a huge sphere so you have almost no Penny M. Sieffert, Publisher thousands of people..A major rail two minutes, Canadian Press Radio stations and newspapers One of the many children waiting for Santa’s were flooded with telephone calls damage bere,” Dehlinger said. “The the best we George T. Chappell Dennis M. Santoro line was shut down after a section reported., can do is say we had a little shaking. There was no Editor Advsrtlaing Director arrival was 3-year-old Megan Stone of Manchester. The news agency said traffic from panicked residents. Santa let Megan shake the bell for his sleigh and of track reportedly collapsed damage to this area due to the earthquake being Douglas A. Bevins Sheldon Cohen near Montreal. lights were out In Quebec City, “We’re on the seventh floor and Exscutiva Editor Composing Manager sang a Christmas carol with her. and there was no electricity in I thought we were going to be on that far away.” “I know what you’re saying,” Santa told Megan. There were no Immediate re­ Dispatchers for Coventry police and state police Jeanpe 0. Fromerth Robert H. Hubbard ports of serious Injuries. Montreal's central train station the first,” said Charlie Popejoy, in Bolton and Andover reported no calls about the Businaes Manager Pressroon) Manager "Santa ought to sing far away.” and major hotels. Telephone lines 80. of the central Ontario city of In the midst of the star-eyed children was Laurie The earthquake measured 6 on quake in those towns. Danisa A. Roberts Frank J. SSeSweegan the Richter scale with an epicen­ also were down around the island.