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East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
- Subject: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
- From: patrick at ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore)
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:44:20 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:55 AM, JC Dill wrote:
> On 23/08/11 3:13 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> A. Our structures aren't built to seismic zone standards. Our
>> construction workers aren't familiar with*how* to build to seismic
>> zone standards. We don't secure equipment inside our buildings to
>> seismic zone standards.
>
> They should be.
> They should be.
> You should.
>
> Earthquakes can happen anywhere. There's no excuse to fail to build/secure to earthquake standards.
Tornados can happen anywhere, there's no excuse to fail to build/secure for tornados.
[Etc.]
Things that cost money are not done unless the probability of the danger is higher than vanishingly small. This temblor - at 5.8 with no injuries or fatalities - was the largest earthquake on the entire east coast in 67 years, and the largest in VA in well over a century. Think of the _trillions_ of dollars which could have been put into healthcare, public safety, hell, better networking equipment :) we could have used instead of making all buildings on the east coast earthquake safe.
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TTFN,
patrick