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Like thousands of people in Haiti and the U.S., Azusa Pacific University nursing professor Pamela Cone wondered what became of her family in Port-au-Prince.How you can help, the latest news and quake maps via Google."My extended family lives in the city and there is no news on whether they survived," Cone said.
Born and raised in Haiti by her missionary parents, Cone serves on the board of directors for North Haiti Christian University and travels to the country at least once a year to visit her sister and brother-in-law, who is the president at the college.
Cone's sister and brother-in-law survived the quake, but there is no word on whether her nieces, nephews and other extended family members made it through the natural disaster.
Cone voice cracked when she thought of the devastation in the country she still calls home.
"Everyone in Haiti is my family," she said. "My heart grieves for everyone."
Samantha Rodriguez of Whittier was booked on suspicion of drunken driving and hit-and-run, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Hiroshi Yokoyama said.
The incident occurred about 1:30 a.m. in the 400 block of Tamar Drive, the lieutenant said.
No injuries were reported to Rodriguez, her male passenger or the family living in the home when the car crashed into the living room wall, Yokoyama said.
The car smashed a hole about 5 feet wide and 5 feet tall in the home, he added. The crash caused an estimated $8,000 in damage.
Details of the incident were not available Sunday.
Both the charges are misdemeanors, Yokoyama said, and Rodriguez was expected to be released with a citation.
Today's massive earthquake drill will tie up a ton of county resources this morning. Probably a lot of private resources as well.
Crime Scene poll of the day:
This comes from an account of the Spanish exploration of California under Gaspar de Portola, the first governor of California.
As the expedition entered Orange County on July 28, 1769, they experienced a series of violent earthquakes that changed the course of the Santa Ana River. They prayed and watched the native Indians do the same. As a result the account notes that:
Father Crespi later wrote that at that very moment a violent earthquake struck and the river was thus proclaimed Rio de Los Dulcime Nombre de Jesus de Los Temblores.
An earthquake Web site cataloging earthquakes through history notes:
The earthquake history of California serendipitously begins with the first overland expedition through the State in . In response to the perceived threat posed by Russian expansion into the northern Pacific and growing British presence in the northwestern Pacific, Spain embarked on the colonization of present-day California through the establishment of a series of Franciscan missions, supported by military garrisons at San Diego and Monterey. In the summer of , Gaspar de Portola led the first expedition from San Diego to establish a land route to Monterey.
On , while camped along the Santa Ana River, about 50 km southeast of Los Angeles, a sharp earthquake was felt that "*** lasted about half as long as an Ave Maria." From the diaries of three members of the expedition, we know that earthquakes were felt on nearly a daily basis through August 3, as the party traveled northwestward to near San Gabriel and then westward across Los Angeles to the Pacific. The diary of Fray Juan Crespi (Bolton, 1927) mentions no fewer than a dozen aftershocks, some described as violent. After August 4, no further earthquakes were mentioned as the expedition traveled into the San Fernando Valley and exited to the north.
I didn't understand where the LA Times was going with it's earthquake story this morning. Even though the story had A1 placement, the lede was long and convoluted. The photos were beautiful though. Especially the image of a worker cleaning glass from a broken window at Pomona City Hall.
The story didn't even crack A1 in the New York Times, instead it led with the indictment of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. The quake (and another nice photo of Pomona City Hall) story is on A11.
Interestingly, the NY Times quake story cites Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. John Saleeby, of the Walnut Diamond Bar substation as a source.
They should have called him months ago. -- He's known among reporters in this newsroom for famously saying: "Nothing's going on. But I'm waiting for the big one. It's coming any day now. I'm sure you've read about it in Bible."
Well Lt. Saleeby, nice call. But there are those who still claim the temblor wasn't a "Big One" just moderate.



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