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Experts warn NYC could come down like a house of cards if a 5.0 earthquake struck along [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| April 4, 2018
| Nic White
Posted on 04/04/2018 8:24:32 AM PDT by C19fan
New York City could be hit with a $39 billion in damage with 30 million tons of debris clogging the streets if a long-overdue earthquake hit.
The city of 8.5 million people is not thought of as a tremor hot spot, but the five boroughs are riddled with fault lines that could bring dozens of buildings down.
Because the city is so dense and littered with thousands of tall buildings, even a 5.0 magnitude earthquake nearby would cause such damage, experts fear.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: earthquakes; geology
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:24:32 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Surely climate change makes this infinitely (if not more) worse.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:26:59 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
To: C19fan
I guess the only thing for them to do is enter a state of blind panic and start the looting and pillaging... ...right now!
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:27:00 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: C19fan
NYC is anchored by very solid rock.
Doubt a 5.0 would cause widespread damage.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:27:01 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: C19fan
I guess the “experts” dont know Manhattan sits on 600 feet of solid granite. And besides what city could take a 5 level quake?
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:27:36 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: C19fan
Well, that or a few more years of Dem rule.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:28:06 AM PDT
by
LittleBillyInfidel
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
A lot of the brick buildings might come down. Brick is very vulnerable to earthquake damage.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:28:18 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C210N
>>Surely climate change makes this infinitely (if not more) worse.<<
All that Manhattan fracking.
So dangerous!
It isn’t like muslims with airplanes could cause any damage! So long as they call it a “religion” it is hands off, 3,000 Americans be damned.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:29:52 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(robert mueller is an unguided missile)
To: C210N
Hurricane Sandy was a 'wake up" alert for NYC
many are still waiting for New York State and the Fed.gov. for assistance
"I'm from the government, .. and I'm here to help ! "
Ultimate B. S. !
To: C19fan
So would most cities that are built on inactive fault lines. And if large meteor hit most cities, they would be wiped out. As a society we don’t have the money to make every city earthquake or disaster-proof.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:30:56 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: C19fan
Well, I’m no expert, but I’m going out on a limb and declaring: NYC would burn if a hydrogen bomb were dropped on it.
And it would get wet if a tidal wave hit.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:32:12 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
To: C210N
“infinitely (if not more) worse”
LOL. I spewed coffee on that.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:33:32 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: C19fan
New York City is in greater danger from a tsunami generated by an undersea earthquake originating along the west side of the Azores than from a local earthquake.
Real dangers are of sufficient concern without imagining potential dangers.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:34:12 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots. There are no old, bold pilots.)
To: C19fan
NYC was under a mile of ice int he last ice age.
CLIMATE CHANGE!
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:34:49 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:36:10 AM PDT
by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: WayneS
I guess the only thing for them to do is enter a state of blind panic and start the looting and pillaging... ...right now! ...Or give massive sums of money to liberal 'advocacy' groups...
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:37:39 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Hollywood is angry because conservatives have ONE HALF OF ONE SHOW out of thousands of liberal shows)
To: C19fan
And New Orleans could sink further into all that water that surrounds it. Trying to flush it down the toilet bowl.
Or Los Angeles and San Francisco could fall off into the Pacific Ocean if the earthquakes keep happening.
Oh, and the sky is falling because chicken little said so.
Another iffa, coulda, woulda, shoulda but hasn't happened yet warning from the doomsayers on the Left.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:38:34 AM PDT
by
HotHunt
To: C19fan
Am I a bad person for wanting sufficient advance notice for this event, to lay in adequate supplies of popcorn and beer ??
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:40:05 AM PDT
by
Salgak
(You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
To: C19fan
I have always wondered what would happen with a large quake in the NYC area. It would be devastating to all of those older buildings. Can you imagine even a few coming down?
I doubt NYC and retrofit the whole city, so it is a ticking time bomb. A 5.2 every hundred years, a 6 or 7 every 670 years or so. While they might weather a 5.2, a 6 or 7 magnitude quake would be incredibly devastating. This would be on par with the big deadly quakes in Bejing and Mexico City.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:41:19 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(If Trump can't deliver and folds like a typical Republican, maybe he should be impeached.)
To: C19fan
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