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To: DB

50 miles is on in earthquake design terms.


34 posted on 03/14/2011 5:47:03 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

Most of the western United States is within 50 miles of a fault line.

In “design terms” being on the fault is not the same as being 50 miles away. Being on a fault line means the basic foundation of the structure is likely compromised during an earthquake. Not so 50 miles away. Earthquakes are attenuated the further you get from the epicenter. I suggest you go experience an earthquake at its epicenter verses 50 miles away and get back to us.


58 posted on 03/14/2011 5:59:55 PM PDT by DB
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