East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

Wed Aug 24 21:17:08 UTC 2011

On 8/24/11 6:44 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'll scratch "no earthquakes" off the list of benefits for the east
coast over the west coast. ;)

~Seth