I gotta show this to a guy who keeps spewing about how much better off he is having to deal with earthquakes instead of the occasional midwest tornado.
Californians, have no fear of this man behind curtain. Good ole California with its ever changing and constantly updated building code is taking quakes into account.
Thanks for posting an interesting read. Definitely worth thinking about!
Great line, and so true.
I am here in Richmond, VA — the largest metroplex near to the Earthquake today. I am from Los Angeles and was 3 miles from the epicenter of the Northridge Quake.
This was a 5.8.
Richmond reaction: 24 HOUR TEAM COVERAGE OF OUR HORRENDOUS ORDEAL! Thank God no one was hurt or even killed! Here is someone who was near a window when it hit! “Well, Joan, I stepped a few steps away and that was sorta that.”
We will be broadcasting nonstop for the next 24 hours, then we will reduce to only 12 hours a day for the next 3 weeks.
Los Angeles reaction: A tiny 5.8 quake rattled a few nerves today. OK, now to Slappy Jockstrap for the sports of the day! How are Kobe and Tiger doing these last few days, Slappy?
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It’s Bushes fault! OOPS! That is so yesterday. Tea Party’s fault!
I mean it.
Every single day.
24/7.
Without fail.
One never, ever knows when these things will hit and will take you away.
Nothing like a good armageddon, calamity of massive proportions, the smell of burning corpses, we’re all gonna die “news” to help supper digest. And people wonder why happy pills are prescribed like candy.
"Hyperbole on steroids" is not too strong a response to that statement.
The deadliest earthquake in recorded history killed hundreds of thousands of people, but far short of the "million" you conjured up, and certainly not in 30 seconds. As with most deadlier quakes recorded, the deaths are usually the result of secondary effects of the quake, like tsunamis or landslides, avalanches, buildings trapping victims but not killint them immediately.
Of course, none of the secondary effects can do the damage in 30 seconds.
Of course, urban planning would have had no effect (good or bad) in any great earthquake prior to around 1960, when people like Barbara Boxer were large fish in very small ponds like Marin County California, and the great Goddess of Legislation discovered that any natural disaster, including an ELE event (Extinction-level event) can be prevented by either passing laws forbidding it, or the even easier alternative of prohibiting people to live anywhere, since every square inch of earth is exposed to potential catastrophes 24/7.
Except her own neighborhood, of course.
The island of La Palma in the is currently the most volcanically active island in the Canary Islands Archipelago.
The western half of the volcano has an approximate volume of 500 cubic kilometres (120 cu mi) and an estimated mass of 1,500,000,000,000 metric tons (1.7×1012 short tons) If it were to catastrophically slide into the ocean, it could generate a wave with an initial height of about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) at the island, and a likely height of around 50 metres (164 ft) at the Caribbean and the Eastern North American seaboard when it runs ashore eight or more hours later.
Tens of millions of lives would be lost as New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Miami, Havana, and many other cities near the Atlantic coast are leveled.
As above, this nearly happened in 1949, the last time it erupted:
In 1949, the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted at its Duraznero, Hoyo Negro and San Juan vents. During this eruption, an earthquake with an epicentre near the village of Jedy occurred. The following day Rubio Bonelli, a local geologist, visited the summit area and discovered that a fissure about 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mi) long had opened on the eastern side of the summit. As a result, the western half of the Cumbre Vieja (which is the volcanically active arm of a triple-armed rift) had slipped about 2 meters (6.6 ft) downwards and 1 meter (3.3 ft) westwards towards the Atlantic Ocean...
Nice try. We all know its Bush's fault.
INDEED.
And, with OThuga in the WhiteHouse, we now have a glaring example of how corrupt Marxist globalist organizations . . . labor union goons . . . educational union goons . . . etc. etc. etc.
are destroying our Constitution, our way of life and many millions of lives—and all set and cocked to destroy 100’s of millions of more lives.
But then . . . that’s the DEPOPULATION goal of the Marxist elites, isn’t it.
Sigh.
This is easily the best thing I’ve read in months ... thanks for posting.
one more reason i'm glad i live i the boondocks... one story cabin built in 1850 that might slide off the cliff if the ground turns plastic but won't shake apart or fall down and where i work, my part of the building has only one floor and i'm 15' from the door
Thank you for posting this. Fascinating article.
Such an earthquake will be what cleanses California