Columbia U. protest and read on -- even "earth quake concerns" and I mention that as well w/supersized tsunami of development posted under Rolls photo

To CPC Members and Others Interested: 9/1/08
EMINENT DOMAIN HEARING SEPT. 2 AND ARTICLE ON EARTHQUAKES IN NEW YORK STATE AND NYC

To CPC Members and Others Interested: 9/1/08
EMIN ENT DOMAIN HEARING SEPT. 2 AND SEPT. 4 (COME THE EVENING OF THE 2ND IF YOU CAN) AND ARTICLE ON EARTHQUAKES IN NEW YORK STATE…

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COALITION TO PRESERVE COMMUNITY -
United for an Open and Strong Community
POST OFFICE BOX 50 - Manhattanville Station
365 West 125th Street
NEW York City, New York 10027
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Coalition to Preserve Community Says it is Time to Stand Up for Your Neighb orhood:
COLUMBIA CONTINUES ITS EVICTION PLAN! IT HAS ASKED THE STATE TO USE EMINENT DOMAIN! HEARING: SEPT. 2, 5:30pm AT CCNY.
Do you want to lose your home?
Do you want your neighbors to lose their homes?
Do you want tax paying owners to lose their properties and have tax exempt Columbia take them away and replace them with biotech level #3 labs?
Do you want Harlem to lose its businesses like Floridita?
Do you want to face all the environmental hazards CU’s expansion will cause to our air, structural weakening of buildings, loss of parking & gain of traffic problems?
Do you want a bathtub (8 stories down) built on an earthquake fault? (Did you see the news articles about possible quake dangers last week?)
Do you want eminent domain to be used to benefit an elitist private institution and spur gentrification?

The Empire State Development Corporation will hold a hearing to determine if eminent domain will be used for the Columbia expansion. It will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 2 and Thursday Sept. 4, at Aaron Davis Hall at City College (135th St. & Convent Ave.), east of Amsterdam Ave. (1pm & 5:30PM sessions)
We urge you to speak out this Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 5:30 – 9:00PM, 135th & Convent. Stand up!
CONTACT US: Call (212) 666-6426, 646-812-5188, or (212) 234-3002 (se habla espanol) or go towww.stopcolumbia.org and sign up to be on our contact list. ESPANOL – OTRO LADO

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COALITION TO PRESERVE COMMUNITY -
United for an Open and Strong Community
POST OFFICE BOX 50 - Manhattanville Station
365 West 125th Street
NEW York City, New York 10027
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Coalition to Preserve Community dice es tiempo de dejarse oir para salvar el barrio:

¡COLUMBIA CONTINUA SU PLAN DE DESALOJO!
¡ELLOS INSISTEN QUE EL ESTADO USE LA EXPROPIACION FORZADA PARA SU BENEFICIO!
REUNIÓN PÚBLICA:
2 DE SEPT., 5:30 PM EN CITY COLLEGE.

¿Desearía usted perder su casa?
¿Desearía usted que sus vecinos pierdan sus20hogares?
¿Desearía usted que negociantes que pagan impuestos pierdan sus propiedades y que Columbia, como institución que no paga impuestos, los desaloje para instalar laboratorios peligrosos?
¿Desearía usted que Harlem pierda negocios como el Floridita?
¿Desearía usted enfrentar los peligros de Plan de Expansión de Columbia en: peligro ambiental en la calidad de aire, debilitamiento de las estructuras de los edificios, pérdida de estacionamiento y más problemas con el tráfico?
¿Desearía usted que una tina (de 8 pisos bajo tierra) sea construida en un lugar donde existe posibilidad de terremoto?
¿Vio usted la semana pasada las noticias y artículos acerca del peligro de posible temblor de tierra?
¿Desearía usted que la expropiación forzada sea usada para beneficiar una institución privada elitista y que estimula el aburguesamiento?
El A 0Empire State Development Corporation sostendrá una reunión publica para determinar si la expropiación forzada será usada para el plan de expansión de CU. Esta reunión será el martes 2 y el jueves 4 de septiembre, en el Salón Aaron Davis de City College (135th St. & Convent Ave.), al este de la Ave. Amsterdam. (Las sesiones saran 1pm & 5:30PM)

Es urgente que usted hable éste martes 2 de sept., de 5:30 – 9:00PM, 135th & Convent. ¡Hágase Oír!

CONTACTENOS: Llame a (212) 666-6426, 646-812-5188, o (212) 234-3002 (se habla español) o visite www.stopcolumbia.org e inscríbase para estar en lista de nuestros contactos.
August 23, 2008

Study finds new earthquake dangers for NYC
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:05 a.m. ET
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- An analysis of recent earthquake activity around New York City has found that many small faults that were believed to be inactive could contribute to a major, disastrous earthquake.
The study also finds that a line of seismic activity comes within two miles of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, about 25 miles north of New Yo rk City. Another fault line near the plant was already known, so the findings suggest Indian Point is at an intersection of faults.
The study's authors, who work at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Observatory, acknowledge that the biggest earthquakes -- in the 6 or 7 magnitude range -- are rare in the New York City region. They say a quake of magnitude 7 probably comes about every 3,400 years.
But they note that no one knows when the last one hit, and because of the population density and the concentration of buildings and financial assets, many lives and hundreds of billions of dollars are at risk.
The metropolitan area does not have a single great fault like the San Andreas fault in California, said Leonardo Seeber, co-author of the study.
''Instead of having a single major fault or a few major faults, we tend to have a lot of very minor and sort of subtle faults,'' he said. ''It's a family of faults, and that can contribute to the severity of an earthquake.''
John Ebel, director of seismology at Boston College's Weston Observatory, said he agreed with the study's finding that small faults can contribute to large earthquakes. ''A quake can jump from one fault to another,'' he said.
The study, published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, analyzed 383 known earthquakes over the past 330 years in or near New York City. The biggest were three that reached magnitude 5 in 1737, 1783 and 1884.
Data on earthquakes since the early 1970s, when Lamont deployed dozens of new detectors inferred from the data that there is a seismic zone, previously undetected, running west from the southwest tip of Connecticut and intersecting with the large, well-known Ramapo fault near Indian Point.
Lynn Sykes, the lead author, said the finding means the danger of a big quake near the nuclear plants is greater that had been thought.
Sykes acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that he is opposed to an application from Entergy Nuclear, which owns the nuclear plant, to extend the licenses of the two reactors, but he said, ''I try to keep that as independent from my work as possible.''
Columbia spokesman Kevin Krajick said the study had been provided before publication to state Attorney GeneralAndrew Cuomo, who argued unsuccessfully earlier this year that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should consider the new earthquake data as it decides whether to extend the licenses.
Ebel said the report's suggestion of a fault line was ''a purely circumstantial, speculative argument, but while it's speculative it's within the scientific bounds of reason.'' He praised the study and urged other scientists to build on it.
Jim Steets, a spokesman for Entergy, said the plant was designed to withstand a seismic event. He said that even if the frequency and intensity of earthquakes is greater than was believed when the plant was built, it wouldn't drastically change the outlook for plant safety.
He said the plant ''may very well be among the safest places to go during a seismic event.''
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Seismological Society of America, http://www.seismosoc.org/


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