Haiti

[Alejandro Rhodes]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/ameri ... index.html

[patchz]

[color=#333333]Yeah, it's all over the news. Very sad.

[Boikat]

The good thing is that pretty much the whole world is pulling together for a bit to send aid.

[Alejandro Rhodes]

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maybe because News already knows that there are more kills in this than the tsunami in indonesia

[beaky]

This kind of trouble is the last thing they needed there... just terrible.  :-/

I wonder what, if any, warnings there have been about the possibility of a major quake there? I don't recall hearing about any previous quakes on that island.

[BigTruck]

[quote]This kind of trouble is the last thing they needed there... just terrible.

[WebbPA]

I guess no one heard there was a 6.5 earthquake last week in San Francisco.

Buildings didn't collapse.

Thousands of people didn't die.

Foreign countries didn't send millions of dollars of aid.

Why?

Because California has building codes.

Dumb assed corrupt third world countries don't have building codes.

Do you know what happens when a 6.5 earthquake hits a dumb assed corrupt third world country?

Buildings fall down.

Dumb assed corrupt third world governments then beg for international aid, steal most of it.

Everything is rebuilt to the same standards (at 10x real cost because of government theft) so they will collapse in the next hurricane.

Repeat as necessary.

[Fozzer]

Fault Zone:

A peek at the Google Satellite Map shows a massive Trench swirling around the Caribbean Islands from Venezuela to Honduras, which would appear as a moving Plate, similar to the San Andreas Fault which totally destroyed San Francisco in 1909.

When I look at the tall Skyscrapers in Miami, in the same fault area, I wonder what the result would be in the event of a serious Earthquake there!

..not to mention the effect of a Tsunami on the low-lying Cities, standing just a few feet above sea level!

The same applies to New York on the Eastern Seaboard, and the present San Francisco and Los Angeles lying on the Pacific San Andreas Fault line.

Paul...I worry about very tall, multi-storey buildings in the event of Earthquakes!......!

[Hagar]

Fault Zone:

A peek at the Google Satellite Map shows a massive Trench swirling around the Caribbean Islands from Venezuela to Honduras, which would appear as a moving Plate, similar to the San Andreas Fault which totally destroyed San Francisco in 1909.

When I look at the tall Skyscrapers in Miami, in the same fault area, I wonder what the result would be in the event of a serious Earthquake there!

According to this Florida is not on a fault line. http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-01-14/story/florida_unaffected_by_fault_line_in_haiti_earthquake

I guess no one heard there was a 6.5 earthquake last week in San Francisco.

Buildings didn't collapse.

Thousands of people didn't die.

Foreign countries didn't send millions of dollars of aid.

Why?

Because California has building codes.

As for building codes in California it doesn't do to be too complacent. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=3 ... 39,7472021

[Fozzer]

Fault Zone:

A peek at the Google Satellite Map shows a massive Trench swirling around the Caribbean Islands from Venezuela to Honduras, which would appear as a moving Plate, similar to the San Andreas Fault which totally destroyed San Francisco in 1909.

When I look at the tall Skyscrapers in Miami, in the same fault area, I wonder what the result would be in the event of a serious Earthquake there!

According to this Florida is not on a fault line. http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-01-14/story/florida_unaffected_by_fault_line_in_haiti_earthquake

I guess no one heard there was a 6.5 earthquake last week in San Francisco.

Buildings didn't collapse.

Thousands of people didn't die.

Foreign countries didn't send millions of dollars of aid.

Why?

Because California has building codes.

As for building codes in California it doesn't do to be too complacent. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=3 ... 39,7472021

My favourite quote:....

...."Trust Me".... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!

Paul.... ... ... ...!

[Alejandro Rhodes]

Errm I think the magnitude doesn't necessary cause catastrophes,Let me remind you this was a 7.5 in richter scale ,we do have all the time small earthquakes all the time and many are from that the same scale BUT 8 seconds ,6 seconds etc, This one LAST 35 seconds

I'm watching

[Apex]

Fozzer wrote:

When I look at the tall Skyscrapers in Miami, in the same fault area, I wonder what the result would be in the event of a serious Earthquake there!

I wonder too, I live here, but 10 miles from downtown.

[patchz]

Fault Zone:

A peek at the Google Satellite Map shows a massive Trench swirling around the Caribbean Islands from Venezuela to Honduras, which would appear as a moving Plate, similar to the San Andreas Fault which totally destroyed San Francisco in 1909.

When I look at the tall Skyscrapers in Miami, in the same fault area, I wonder what the result would be in the event of a serious Earthquake there!

..not to mention the effect of a Tsunami on the low-lying Cities, standing just a few feet above sea level!

The same applies to New York on the Eastern Seaboard, and the present San Francisco and Los Angeles lying on the Pacific San Andreas Fault line.

Paul...I worry about very tall, multi-storey buildings in the event of Earthquakes!......!

Hmm, I seem to remember something about a foolish man building his house on sand....
It's just like the Gulf coast and New Orleans. I have never understood the 'wisdom' of building a city BELOW sea level, nor businesses and homes on the beach where there have already been several devastating hurricanes.

me...90 miles to the north....
which is bad enough!

[a1]

I hope they will recover from this disaster. Just so much death and destruction.

[A-10]

okay, by now everyone has heard about the devastating earthquake in Haiti, so I'm here to make say this: We as people have a job to our fellow human beings, so donate money to help out the people of Haiti, after all it sucks to not take action when you know you could've done something great in your life, and you wake up the next day and about an extra $100,000,000 dollars in their country is lost and you have the knowledge you could've done something about it. so help them to rebuild their infrastructure by donating some money, it dosen't have to be a lot after all a little bit sure goes a long way in the end.

that's all I have to say.