And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Harken back to a comment from a professor of Geology. At a dinner party, a guest asked him where best to build a home away from a fault zone. (This in California.) The professor laughed then replied that there is no such place.
Consider also that even in intercratonic zones, there will be a strong earthquake from time to time. Of course, there are also the risks of floods, fires, tornados, and other dangerous natural hazards.
Pick your poison and learn to live with it, I guess.
They're reporting nearly 23000 casualties...And they continue to search for survivors. Undoubtably they'll find more victims... I've lived in several cities with fewer residents...
Following disasters which cause such numbers of fatalities, I often think what if every 3rd person, or 5 of 10, or even the entire population of a town ... just gone.
I've lived in towns of <400 to cities of 50,000. Imagine a majority of those, or even all of them from my town, succumbed to fatal injuries. Many breathing their last suddenly, the less fortunate after days of fear and agony while hoping and praying for rescue.
Its easy to think, well it was *those* people, it wouldn't happen here because we build better. But it is sobering to consider such great loss of life. It is irrelevant who they are/were.
The infamous San Andreas fault is visible for most of its length in California. Less failts like the Garlock, or Whittier Narrows, and many others are also visible.
Offset roadbeds or fencelines, street curbs creeping out of alignment are some of more well known telltales. But dry riverbeds taking a sharp turn for no apparent reason, or 'sag ponds' are also indications. South of San Francisco there are a series of lakes all in a row. The lakes are characterized as having a long axis and relatively narrow width. The long axis of the lakes are aligned with the fault. These lakes are a great example of naturally occurring sag ponds.
You would think that ancient mankind would have seen the fault lines and decided to not build cities nearby.
ReplyDeleteThe fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
DeleteHarken back to a comment from a professor of Geology. At a dinner party, a guest asked him where best to build a home away from a fault zone.
Delete(This in California.)
The professor laughed then replied that there is no such place.
Consider also that even in intercratonic zones, there will be a strong earthquake from time to time. Of course, there are also the risks of floods, fires, tornados, and other dangerous natural hazards.
Pick your poison and learn to live with it, I guess.
I cannot imagine a worse death. Your body trapped, broken, and contorted. Unable to move so much as a finger. And then come the rats. For days.
ReplyDeleteThey're reporting nearly 23000 casualties...And they continue to search for survivors. Undoubtably they'll find more victims... I've lived in several cities with fewer residents...
ReplyDeleteFollowing disasters which cause such numbers of fatalities, I often think what if every 3rd person, or 5 of 10, or even the entire population of a town ... just gone.
DeleteI've lived in towns of <400 to cities of 50,000. Imagine a majority of those, or even all of them from my town, succumbed to fatal injuries. Many breathing their last suddenly, the less fortunate after days of fear and agony while hoping and praying for rescue.
Its easy to think, well it was *those* people, it wouldn't happen here because we build better. But it is sobering to consider such great loss of life. It is irrelevant who they are/were.
don't fool with Mother Nature, amazing.
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looks like California
ReplyDeleteThe infamous San Andreas fault is visible for most of its length in California. Less failts like the Garlock, or Whittier Narrows, and many others are also visible.
DeleteOffset roadbeds or fencelines, street curbs creeping out of alignment are some of more well known telltales. But dry riverbeds taking a sharp turn for no apparent reason, or 'sag ponds' are also indications. South of San Francisco there are a series of lakes all in a row. The lakes are characterized as having a long axis and relatively narrow width. The long axis of the lakes are aligned with the fault. These lakes are a great example of naturally occurring sag ponds.