Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

[JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>]

On 24/08/11 2:46 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Seth Mattinen"<sethm () rollernet us>
> > I'll scratch "no earthquakes" off the list of benefits for the east
> > coast over the west coast. ;)
> A very early blogger buddy of mine owned a stake, for a while, in a colo in
> Knoxville TN, which was, they said, out of *all* the hazard planes: too
> far inland for hurricanes, not in the tornado belt,

Knoxville might not be in the "tornado belt" but it definitely gets 
tornadoes:

<http://www.wbir.com/news/article/167651/2/Tornado-warnings-issued-for-much-of-East-Tennessee>

Significant-damage-causing earthquakes in California are a 
once-every-30-to-100-years type of event for any given location.  You 
need to build and plan for them, but they don't occur with anywhere near 
the same frequency as tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, ice storms, etc.  
Plus, you don't have to deal with hours or days of warnings, or false 
warnings (as is often the case with hurricanes, which may change course, 
after hours or days of warning people "in the path" who end up entirely 
unscathed).  Just get prepared, stay prepared, know what to do if^W when 
it happens.

jc