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Thread #160943   Message #3820110
Posted By: Rapparee
12-Nov-16 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Just when it couldn't get any worse-Earthquake
Subject: RE: BS: Just when it couldn't get any worse.....
It's easy to slip into fault-finding, but not by induction, only by subduction.

The Cascadia Fault may also be overdue and may have triggered the San Andreas Fault in the past. If the Cascadia goes and triggers only a 6.7 earthquake it's estimated that 13,000 would die, thousands more would be injured, even more would need food and water, a third of the emergency personnel couldn't get to work even if they did survive, and the property damage would be in the upper hundreds of billions of USD. If that also triggered the San Andreas Fault the damage would extend from Vancouver Island to Los Angeles. These damage estimates do not include the tsunami that would almost certainly result from the Cascadia slippage.

No, that would not be Trump's fault (pun intended). I blame Chester A. Arthur.