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 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2001_Geiyo_earthquake&oldid=561228080
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Metro_Area_Regional_Transit&oldid=605936635
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curse_of_Tippecanoe&oldid=608802136

The 2001 Geiyo earthquake (2001年芸予地震 Nisen-ichi-nen Gēyo Jishin) occurred on March 24, 2001 at 15:27 local time (06:27 UTC) near Hiroshima, Japan. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.7 on the moment magnitude scale. One person in Hiroshima and one person in Ehime were reported dead. About 3700 buildings were damaged in the Hiroshima area. Liquefaction was observed in Hiroshima and Ehime. Power outage occurred in the prefectures of Hiroshima, Ehime, Okayama, Yamaguchi, and Kōchi. The maximal intensity was shindo lower 6 in Hiroshima. This earthquake could be felt along the eastern and southern coasts of South Korea.

The released seismic moment of the earthquake was 1.3×1019 Nm. This earthquake is a normal faulting in-slab event within the subducting Philippine Sea Plate. The slip of the earthquake was estimated to be about 1.5 to 2.4 m. The locations of aftershocks were distributed roughly in N-S direction. It has been suggested that this earthquake was related to the dehydration of the Philippine Sea Plate slab.

In this region, a strong earthquake has occurred in 1905, which was also an in-slab event within the subducting plate.

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Buses ===== SMART has three routes that serve only Wilsonville, going east-west and north-south. However, it is noteworthy that the three other routes go well beyond the city limits (and the entities who pay for the service). One route (now called 2X) heads north to Tualatin and southern Portland (the Barbur Blvd. TC), connecting with TriMet, and another (route 3) goes southeast to the city of Canby, connecting with Canby Area Transit. The third route, 1X, is most unusual; it makes an almost 30-mile, non-stop run to Salem, with connections to Salem-Keizer Transit (Cherriots). (Service to Oregon City is no longer provided.) Routes 4, 5 and 6 serve only Wilsonville, but route 5 connects with TriMet route 96 at Commerce Circle, at the northern end of the city.

Subways


On August 5, 2013, SMART began operating route 8X, an express route connecting the Wilsonville Transit Center with TriMet's Beaverton Transit Center via Interstate 5 and Highway 217. Because the WES commuter rail service connects the same two points, route 8X only has one trip per day in each direction (from Wilsonville at 5:20 a.m. and from Beaverton at 10:05 p.m.), and is intended to provide service at times when WES does not operate.

All of SMART's routes serve the transit center SMART Central, with timed connections between routes. The system has a total of more than 35 vehicles in its fleet, including buses, vans, and a bus dressed to look like a historic trolley.

With transfers, it is possible to use public transit to travel between Portland and Salem. Using SMART is cheaper than taking direct (and faster) Greyhound or Amtrak Cascades service.

Exceptions
The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was not followed by his death in office, despite being seriously wounded in an assassination attempt within months of his inauguration. Days after Reagan survived the shooting, columnist Jack Anderson wrote "Reagan and the Eerie Zero Factor" and noted that the 40th president had either disproved the superstition, or had nine lives. Reagan, the oldest man to be elected President, also survived treatment for colon cancer while in office. First Lady Nancy Reagan was reported to have hired psychics and astrologers to try to protect her husband from the effects of the curse. Interestingly, as governor of California prior to his presidency, Reagan refused to approve a major dam project that would have flooded an Indian reservation, on the grounds that "we've already broken enough treaties with the Indians." Reagan left office on January 20, 1989, and ultimately died of Alzheimer's Disease on June 5, 2004, at the age of 93. His would-be assassin, John Hinckley, Jr., was found by a jury to be insane, but there was no evidence that he was motivated by a belief in the curse.

The next president in the line of the curse, George W. Bush in 2000, was unharmed in an assassination attempt in 2005. He finished out his final term on January 20, 2009 and survives to the present day. Those who are predisposed to belief in the curse may rationalize that the curse has been broken by Reagan surviving his assassination attempt. Those who are not so predisposed would point out that no break in the pattern would be possible if the curse were real.

The only president who died in office without being elected in a "cursed" year was Zachary Taylor, who was elected in 1848 and died in 1850. However, Taylor also fought against Tecumseh, during the War of 1812, and is considered by some as having also been "killed" by the curse.