The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 98

8 hrttfUs, Co nQel6 Cmtt MANAGUA SPREADS QUAKE RISK I 1 i from reconstruction strategy, The dispersal of Managua violatet a Latin ATencan cultural trait that favon concentration "I used to be able to walk to worki now I have to uke the bus." aaid a construction worker living in a satellite community built with mortgage money nude available by the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). i also have to make my (nwngage) payments on time." A itevedore complained. "We ihoimht ihe housei were donated by the United Statei but then we found out we had to pay for them." An official turvey In an AID-fi-nanced community reported that "people lay they miss the camaraderie of the old daya (when many lived crowded together In ihe center) and that commuting la Inconvenient, but they also sav they like the absence of congestion. Another survey ahowed thai 78 of those sampled believed they were living In better accommodations than before the quake.

Six percent be-Time Tura to rage 9, Col. 3 Clt4 tnm ilrtf ri Jvavrt the euylurt, the 157? qtuk.e UP, BVrft than tf p. uiatiui without emjilaywent mi Tu-fc Ufi'ptf anly hafteirsa. lie i magnitude was regis-trrtd at 6 on the Futhter scale, a tall degree tela the 61 registered by California's Sylmar quake year ear. Uef.

yet fataliuea were almost Umri higher Managua than Ihe Sytmar quake. Something common tn many Uun ciues but uncommon in Ihe United Suirt helped account for ihe relatively high loll in Maiuu4-there were numerous small shops and stare whose owners lived with their famines on ihe premises. Another reason goes back into his-lory. After ihe city was destroyed by tn earthquake in 1331, it wm rebutii on Ihe tame site. No one knew then that central Managua crossed diagonally by I senc of active faulu, ixrL.mic activity it i daily phenomenon, although rarely strong enough to be noticed by ihe putlic.

Nicaragua's Institute of Seismic Re search records mure ihan S5Q tremors an iterate year. Nuficthcicaa. Maftigua lu be aUnduned the wetKls and ihrut The National Theater, one of Ihe ft buildings that survived ihe quale, to bume ihe keystone for new cay tenter. Affording to a mazier Plan drawn up by Car dose's office, ihe area will be ihe me of "special cultural, governmental, commercial and service functions, all built on a pattern of low density and balanced according to natural ruk." addition lo providing a master plan, ihe government hat adopted a lough new building code, based on California code but "reinforced with ihe reaul'j of our geological studies." Cardotesald. The pace of reconstruction will depend largely on private initiative.

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