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. -- TTFN, patrick
