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Egypt forgot that it has major faults along the Nile Valley, under the Mediterranean Sea and down the Red Sea as well where the Africa and Asia plates meet. When we had the big earthquake in 1992, it was a huge wake up call, but do you think that they changed the building codes...not that there are any...<G>. People here had forgotten about the earthquake and seismic activity in the area because things had been quiet. After all one of the all-time greats was the eruption of Santorini which wasn't that far off our north coast.

Life is simply unsure, so I'll take the sunshine.

Maryanne

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Lynne Glazer <lynne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Man, that is nearly word for word my quake speech to friends outside
of CA.  I add that people should consider reading about
paleoseismology.   The Alaskan quakes were pretty bad, and they just
rebuilt without changing codes.

Lynne
http://www.photo.lynnesite.com

On Mar 9, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Diane Trefethen wrote:

> Umm... about those earthquakes.
>
> We here in California don't have even one earthquake in the Top Ten
> for the United States while the Mississippi River Valley garners
> not one spot but TWO!  And it's ONLY two because they lump the FIVE
> 8.0+ quakes together to make just two.
>
> Furthermore, due to the differences in geology, the range of those
> earthquakes far outstrips those here in California.  The great 1906
> San Francisco quake was felt as far away as the middle of Nevada
> (350 miles) while the New Madrid quake of 1811 rang church bells in
> Boston (1000 miles).
>
> And did you know that the probability of a 6 to 7 point quake
> reoccurring in the Mississippi River Valley in the next 50 years is
> 90%...  THAT IS NINETY PER CENT.  We here in California build to
> codes in anticipation of earthquakes; in the mid-West... nada.
> When the big ones come a-knocking, you guys, especially Memphis to
> St Louis, are going to be S-O-L!
>
> So if it's earthquakes that have you rattled, maybe you'd best come
> out West where we are taking steps to mitigate the death and
> destruction :)
>
>> Angie at the GA/TN/AL line...where the temps are back up and
>> there's never a threat of earthquakes, wildfires, mountain lions,
>> grizzlies, Charles Manson........... :-))
>

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