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CNN Live At Daybreak
Search Complete in California Quake
Aired December 23, 2003 - 06:01 ET
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HOLLY FIRFER, CNN ANCHOR: The rescue search is complete, but the threats of aftershocks linger in the quake-hit central California city of Paso Robles. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 was felt over much of the Golden State, but the only significant damage occurred in the area around the epicenter.
As CNN's Frank Buckley reports, the quake changed the century-old look of Paso Robles.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The earthquake caused the most damage in the small central California city, Paso Robles. Here, two people died, 19 and 55-year-old women who were caught underneath debris as it fell from buildings constructed in the late 1800s.
Nick Sherwin was inside this building as the quake hit.
NICK SHERWIN, PAN JEWELERS OWNER: After it started rumbling and a roaring-type noise, I was able to get my people and tell them to get out of the building.
CATHERINE CATES, BUSINESS OWNER: And everything shake, everything fell. You hit the ground. You know, you just lay down and wait until it finished.
BUCKLEY: This video from the newsroom camera of a central California TV station providing a sense of the shaking.
Forty-six buildings in a five-square-block area of Paso Robles were damaged. Seismologists say a similar quake in a major metropolis would have resulted in a major catastrophe.
RUSS STEIN, USGS: You put an earthquake like that under Los Angeles, and you have tens of billions of dollars of damage. You put it out here in a relatively remote place, and, fortunately, there are not many immediate consequences.
BUCKLEY (on camera): Rescuers worked late into the evening to see if there were any additional victims buried in the rubble. Later, inspectors will go building to building to certify their safety before allowing anybody else back in.
Frank Buckley, CNN, Paso Robles, California.
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Aired December 23, 2003 - 06:01 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HOLLY FIRFER, CNN ANCHOR: The rescue search is complete, but the threats of aftershocks linger in the quake-hit central California city of Paso Robles. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 was felt over much of the Golden State, but the only significant damage occurred in the area around the epicenter.
As CNN's Frank Buckley reports, the quake changed the century-old look of Paso Robles.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The earthquake caused the most damage in the small central California city, Paso Robles. Here, two people died, 19 and 55-year-old women who were caught underneath debris as it fell from buildings constructed in the late 1800s.
Nick Sherwin was inside this building as the quake hit.
NICK SHERWIN, PAN JEWELERS OWNER: After it started rumbling and a roaring-type noise, I was able to get my people and tell them to get out of the building.
CATHERINE CATES, BUSINESS OWNER: And everything shake, everything fell. You hit the ground. You know, you just lay down and wait until it finished.
BUCKLEY: This video from the newsroom camera of a central California TV station providing a sense of the shaking.
Forty-six buildings in a five-square-block area of Paso Robles were damaged. Seismologists say a similar quake in a major metropolis would have resulted in a major catastrophe.
RUSS STEIN, USGS: You put an earthquake like that under Los Angeles, and you have tens of billions of dollars of damage. You put it out here in a relatively remote place, and, fortunately, there are not many immediate consequences.
BUCKLEY (on camera): Rescuers worked late into the evening to see if there were any additional victims buried in the rubble. Later, inspectors will go building to building to certify their safety before allowing anybody else back in.
Frank Buckley, CNN, Paso Robles, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
