> -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patr...@ianai.net] > Sent: 24 August 2011 14:46 > To: NANOG list > Subject: Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 > > 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.
Indeed, we are not going to be building earthquake proof buildings in London for example. Riot proof maybe.. -- Leigh Porter ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
