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On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:41:16 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:14:35 -0700, wrote:

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:55:21 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:14:17 -0700, wrote:

I just heard on tv that the most dangerous one is just outside of
NY... even more dangerous than the ones in California.

That is based on the fact that they just found a previously
undiscovered fault but it has not shown any proof that it is
particularly active or that it will be causing a massive earthquake.
The Pacific rim is moving all the time. The biggest danger for these
eastern faults is that we really have no seismic building code
provisions. The people on the coast may be in better shape, simply
because hurricane code and seismic codes overlap somewhat.
(assuming they enforce wind codes)

I think they have a good suspicion that's it dangerous.

If so, it should show up in their building codes. Unfortunately the
people who adopt building codes only do it over the dead bodies of
victims. That is why we never fix anything until we have a disaster.
In Florida it was Andrew. California seems to get motivated a little
more from each earthquake. Unfortunately most of the country has not
really had much bad happen to them so they don't have much in their
building codes. The tornado people are the ones who amaze me. They get
tornados every year and they still do not have a wind code.

The fault was recently discovered. The issue needs to be addressed. As
I said, those who know think it's the most dangerous one.

I have no idea what point you're trying to make.