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Undersea quakes rumble along south Oregon coast A 4.4 magnitude earthquake rattled the Oregon Coast at 6:55 a.m. July 29, but the tremors do not pose a threat of triggering a larger earthquake – but they do serve as a reminder for residents that we live in a seismically active area, according to a local expert. The July 29 earthquake shook the ground west of
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports a 4.0 magnitude earthquake occurred off the Oregon Coast near Port Orford at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1. This is the second such undersea tremor in the area over seven days.
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“It’s constantly rocking and rolling out there.” Althea Rizzo, Oregon Emergency Management
Coos Bay between 200 to 400 miles offshore. It happened in the Blanco
Fracture Zone, said Althea Rizzo, Geologic Hazards Program Coordinator
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RUNNING Show raised funds for several organizations
ELLIOT SCHWARZ Country Media, Inc. etails are now emerging following (CASA Brookings Harbor High School) the 29th annual Curry County $1,750; Animal Welfare (South Coast Cruisers parade and benefit car Humane Society) $1,000; Fire safety show held during the Memorial Day Azalea (Harbor Volunteer Fire. Association, et. Festival in Brookings. al.) $2,000; Fun for families (Manley Art Several of the 180 cars paraded down Center children’s summer scholarship Chetco Avenue, during the festival parade program, 4th of July fireworks, Azalea and were later displayed at the Port of Park Christmas lights). Brookings. Organizers said this year’s Winners of this year’s Memorial Day show was their most successful yet for both event included Ted Johnson for Best of participation and funds raised. Show Modified, for his 1932 Ford roadster, Entry fees and community sponsors and John Castle, Best of Show stock, with contributed to a donation total of $12,600 a 1962 Chevrolet Corvette. The full list is distributed to 21 community groups, at the club’s website or Facebook page, including the Cape Ferrelo, Harbor, below. Winchuck, and Brookings fire departments. Also benefiting were the Brookings Food Happy days comments Bank, the various church-sponsored community kitchens, Oasis Advocacy, Twice each month 20 – 30 members Manley Art Center, Court Appointed gather for a Show & Shine where they Special Advocates (CASA), and others. display their cars or motorcycles at the locales of their sponsors, or other public Where the money goes venues. Other destinations for Show & Shine events are cruises to area senior Incumbent co-presidents of the Club facilities and assisted living communities. said that the Cruisers distributed the At these events cruisers said they will hear $12,000 realized from the Memorial Day comments like “I went to my senior prom event to 21 community organizations, in in one of those,” or a vague reference to seven categories: food groups (community the birth of a child. What the cruisers know kitchens, the food bank), $4,500; clothing is that for folks confined to a facility, the (Oasis Advocacy and Shelter, et. al.), arrival of these vintage autos is a comforting $1,250; Seniors (Meals On Wheels, Chetco presence and friendly reminder of bygone, Activity Center), $1,000; Children but happy days. Upcoming Show and Shines will be Aug. 13 at Monarch Memory Care Community; Aug. 27 at Shore Pines Senior Living Community. The club has an active calendar of events that included a show at the Del Norte County
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Courtesy photo from Phil Nutzhorn Best of Show, modified class, 1939 Ford Roadster Courtesy photo from Trout Recording /Jacquerie (Background) The Curry County Cruisers Car Show at the Port of Brookings.
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with Oregon Emergency Management (OEM). “It’s where we have two tectonic plates offshore that are sliding past each other and it’s just a really active area for these kinds of earthquakes,” Rizzo said. This fault line has not recently seen an uptick in earthquakes, she said. It is known by seismologists to be a hot spot for quakes.
“It’s constantly rocking and rolling out there,” Rizzo said. Earthquakes that occur along this fault line do not pose a safety threat to Oregon residents. “It’s so far off shore and the earthquakes on it tend to be fairly small,” Rizzo said. Although this particular See QUAKES, Page 9
Wave energy facility will be seen from shore MICHELL KLAMPE Pilot Guest Article
The next step in Oregon State University’s construction of a wave energy testing facility off the Oregon Coast is likely to be visible to residents and visitors to the area in August. Crews will work on shore and from a vessel anchored about a mile offshore from Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site south of Newport. The work is part of the construction of PacWave South, which will be the first pre-permitted, utility-scale, grid-connected wave energy test site in the United States. Workers aboard a 265foot vessel anchored just off the coast and additional crews at the recreation site will inspect and prepare cable conduits for next summer’s planned installation of power and data cables. “A mile sounds far, but the offshore support vessel Seacor Lee is a large ship, and it will appear very close,” said Burke Hales, PacWave’s chief scientist and a professor in the OSU College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. “We just want to make sure people are aware of what’s happening.” To accommodate the work, portions of Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site parking lot will be closed beginning Aug. 4. Conditions permitting, the Seacor Lee is expected to arrive in Newport Aug. 7 and anchor off the coast shortly after that, Hales said. Beach access and park restrooms will remain open at Driftwood, but parking may be limited and some larger recreational vehicles may not be able to turn around. Parking and beach access is available that Governor Patterson Memorial State Recreation Site 3 miles south of Driftwood Beach, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department officials said. When completed, PacWave will offer wave energy developers the opportunity to try different
What to expect The work at Driftwood is expected to be completed by early September. Construction updates will be posted online at https:// pacwaveenergy.org/ constructionupdates/. technologies for harnessing the power of ocean waves and transmitting that energy to the local electrical grid. The ocean test site will be on a sandy-bottomed stretch of the Pacific Ocean away from popular commercial and recreational fishing reefs about 7 miles off the coast of Newport. The site will have four test berths, which combined can accommodate up to 20 wave energy devices at any one time. Power and data cables buried below the seafloor will connect the ocean test site to a shoreside facility in Seal Rock, south of Newport. Louisiana-based industrial electrical services contractor R.T. Casey is overseeing the procurement, construction and installation of the cables for PacWave, including the August work. The cables, which are each about 12 miles long, are being manufactured in Norway by the Parisbased firm Nexans and are anticipated to be installed next summer. In preparation for the cable installation, crews this summer will be working in a vault under the parking lot of Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site, where the cable conduits begin, and about a mile offshore, where the conduits end. When the cables are installed, they will run through the conduits from the shore, under the beach and out to sea, where they come up out of the seafloor about 1 mile out. From there, the cable will be buried just under the seafloor all the way out to the test site. The Seacor Lee will be anchored near where the cable conduits come up from the seafloor, but the See FACILITY, Page 9
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