OREGON RATTLED BY QUAKE

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 26, 1993                   TAG: 9303260095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WOODBURN, ORE.                                LENGTH: Short
OREGON RATTLED BY QUAKE
A strong earthquake rumbled through the Northwest early Thursday, cracking the Capitol rotunda, collapsing walls at a high school and a theater and jolting people awake.
"It rolled my wife right out of the water bed," said David Ross Jordan of Dallas, west of Salem.
Only minor injuries were reported.
The 45-second temblor began at 5:34 a.m., and was centered 30 miles south of Portland.
It was felt as far away as Seattle, 145 miles north of Portland, and Roseburg, 165 miles to the south. Estimates of its magnitude ranged from 5.3 to 5.7 on the Richter scale.
"It just kept rumbling and rumbling," said Jose Alberto Nunez of Molalla, a town of 3,800 about two miles from the epicenter.
In Salem, about 15 miles south of the epicenter, the Capitol rotunda was seriously damaged and part of the building was closed.
House Speaker Larry Campbell said it appeared the rotunda was shifted by the earthquake, and engineers were considering removing the gold-plated pioneer man on top of the Capitol.
Two walls at Molalla's high school partially collapsed, and bricks and a chimney fell from the 68-year-old building. Public schools are closed across the state this week for spring break.
An earthquake of 5.0 on the Richter scale can cause considerable damage.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB