You'd love the Puget Sound...

Post #188,409 by inthane-chan 12/28/04 2:58:41 PM Reply	You'd love the Puget Sound... Apparently the next big earthquake up here will turn the sound into some kind of reflection chamber, sending gigantic tidal waves north and south through the whole Puget Sound basin. "Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
Post #188,427 by ben_tilly 12/28/04 7:33:54 PM Reply	It gets worse There is an earthquake as big as the one that just hit sitting just off the coast. [link\|http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Surficial/quake/eq4.htm\|http://www.em.gov.bc...ial/quake/eq4.htm] [link\|http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/hist/1700.htm\|http://www.pgc.nrcan...smo/hist/1700.htm] [link\|http://www.pnsn.org/HAZARDS/CASCADIA/cascadia_event.html\|http://www.pnsn.org/...scadia_event.html] However our current best guess is that the next one is 100-300 years off. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #188,433 by tuberculosis 12/28/04 8:01:36 PM Reply	Bring it on I'm ready. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #188,450 by FuManChu 12/29/04 1:51:51 AM Reply	Riiiiiight. Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka spend $0 and lose 50,000 plus. Therefore, western Washington should spend billions to prevent a recurrence of the 2 deaths we had from the last "killer tsunami". I'm all for paranoia, but not the anthropomorphization of nature.
Post #188,471 by inthane-chan 12/29/04 10:45:39 AM Reply	Hey, did I say spend $$$? Just mentioning the possibility. Quite frankly, the next big one over here in Seattle == lotsa dead people. The only part up for argument is how those people are going to die. Yeah, I love living here. :P "Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
Post #188,502 by ben_tilly 12/29/04 3:39:36 PM Reply	Sorry, but that argument is stupid Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka saw repeated tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean and didn't pay attention to the fact that it could happen there. So they suffered major loss of life. What you're saying is for us to notice, "Hey, that kind of disaster sucks, it can happen here, let's do something about it!" is trivializing what happened there. That's stupid. This is not a mountains to molehills comparison. The earthquake waiting off of the coast in the Pacific Northwest is as big or bigger than the one that let go in Thailand. When it last let go in 1700 there was catastrophic (according to the size of populations around then) loss of life both locally and internationally. (Japan in particular has excellent records of the disaster.) There are a lot more people present now, and the expected loss of life is correspondingly higher the next time round. If the expected loss of life is lower than with this tsunami, that is because population densities are not as high as in places like Sri Lanka. You appear to be saying that we shouldn't try to do anything about this. I'm not entirely sure what your reasoning is. I'm not entirely sure that you have any real reasoning for that. Regards, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #188,580 by jake123 12/30/04 2:43:31 PM Reply	For reference when the 1700 earthquake was analyzed, based both on Japanese records and physical evidence on the west coast of Canada, they estimate that the size of the tsunami was well over 10m when it came ashore in BC. Victoria would probably pretty much disappear. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

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