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LAKEPORT, Calif. – A driver escaped injury when his vehicle overturned on Sunday.
The single vehicle collision occurred shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday on Scotts Valley Road just south of Highway 20, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The late model Ford pickup with a camper shell rolled over but the driver was able to get out on his own, based on reports from the scene.
Along with the CHP Northshore Fire Protection District sent a battalion chief, an engine, ambulance and a medic unit.
Additional information about the crash's cause wasn't immediately available late Sunday.
Gary McAuley contributed to this report.
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The meeting will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Clearlake Oaks Moose Lodge, at the corner of Highway 53 and Highway 20.
The town hall is one in a regular series of meetings hosted by District 3 Supervisor Denise Rushing.
Topics will include updates on local projects and the health of Clear Lake. Thompson also will give an update on issues and events in Congress.
The agenda also includes an open forum to discuss issues of interest to the community of Clearlake Oaks.
Free tables will be set up for local groups, businesses or organizations wishing to distribute informational literature.
Parking at the Moose Lodge is limited, so carpooling is encouraged.
For more information, contact Rushing at 707-263-2368 or
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Because the earthquake did not involve slip near the surface of the Earth, the study suggests that it did not release all of the strain that has built up on faults in the area over the past two centuries, and so future surface rupturing earthquakes in this region are likely.
The paper also suggests that similar events may be hidden from the prehistoric earthquake record both in Haiti and in other similar tectonic settings such as the San Andreas fault in California.
Gavin Hayes, a U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist, along with colleagues from USGS, California Institute of Technology, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the University of Texas at Austin, used a combination of seismological observations, geologic field data and satellite geodetic measurements to analyze the earthquake source.
Initially the Haiti earthquake was thought to be the consequence of movement along a single fault, which accommodates the motion between the Caribbean and North American plates.
By modeling the patterns of surface deformation, the team was able to assess which fault was responsible. Their results showed that the earthquake may not have been caused by the simple rupture of a single fault, but instead may have involved a complex series of faults.
The pattern of surface deformation was dominated by movement on a previously unknown, subsurface thrust fault, named the Léogâne fault, which did not rupture the surface.
Hayes, a post-doctoral researcher, is contracted to work for the USGS by Synergetic, Inc.
This is one of several papers to be published this month in a special issue of Nature Geoscience on the Haiti earthquake.
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – By a score of 42-0, the Clear Lake Cardinals of Lakeport fell victim to a decisively superior Middletown Mustangs football team in Middletown’s homecoming Friday night.
Amid pageantry that included a parade of floats, flag presentations by horses in full gallop and military personnel, and the crowning of the homecoming king and queen, the Mustangs ran up the score early in the game, leading 28-0 at the end of the first quarter.
“We just seem to be wrapping up the game in the first quarter in our last three games,” Middletown’s head coach Bill Foltmer said after the win.
The Mustangs have won their last four games, three of them shutouts.
Scoring highlights of the first quarter included a two-yard scamper by Jereomy Hoefer after a botched Cardinal punt attempt on their opening possession, a 32-yard dash by Middletown running back David Pike and a 15-yard screen from quarterback Kyle Brown to wide receiver Connor Chick, all resulting in touchdowns for the Mustangs.
Due to injuries and other factors, Clear Lake head coach Schad Schweitzer said his team was using their third string quarterback for most of the game against Middletown.
“We knew what we were up against,” Schweitzer said after the loss. “Today, Goliath won. David didn’t win.”
The Mustangs continued to dominate in the second quarter, when Pike took a handoff from Brown in Middletown’s opening drive and ran it six yards into the Cardinals' end zone for his second touchdown of the game.
After Danny Cardenas made his fifth extra point of the evening, Middletown held a commanding 35-0 lead going into halftime.
Foltmer noted Clear Lake had “a key lineman that was hurt” and due to injuries and other factors the Cardinals were “not the same team as they were earlier this year.”
The Mustangs scored quickly to open up the third quarter, capped by a 57-yard run by David Pike that broadened their lead to 42-0.
The Cardinals' only threat of the game came late in the fourth quarter, when they took 10 plays to drive the ball from their own seven-yard line to Middletown’s two-yard line.
Clear Lake’s Tyler Beets nearly scored on a 46-yard run, but with seconds to go, the Cardinals failed to convert on a first-and-goal opportunity from Middletown’s four-yard line and time ran out.
“The team didn’t quit,” Schweitzer said of his Cardinals, calling this game “something to build off of.”
Middletown quarterback Kyle Brown completed eight of 12 passes against Clear Lake for a total of 158 yards, and the Mustangs ran the ball 20 times for 264 yards rushing and 422 yards total offense against the Cardinals.
Looking ahead to Middletown’s Oct. 22 match against Ft. Bragg (5-0), Foltmer said, “We have a tough game coming up.”
He added, “the (North Central 1 – North) league is going to be a little bit tougher.”
The Clear Lake Cardinals host the Cloverdale Eagles (0-5) in Lakeport next Friday, Oct. 15, while the Mustangs travel to St. Helena (1-4) to take on the Saints.
In JV action, the Cardinals were more competitive, but still lost to Middletown 35-22.
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