[143960] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Aug 24 09:44:58 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4E54F4A8.8010508@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:44:20 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:55 AM, JC Dill wrote:
> =08On 23/08/11 3:13 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> A. Our structures aren't built to seismic zone standards. Our
>> construction workers aren't familiar with*how* to build to seismic
>> zone standards. We don't secure equipment inside our buildings to
>> seismic zone standards.
>=20
> They should be.
> They should be.
> You should.
>=20
> Earthquakes can happen anywhere. There's no excuse to fail to =
build/secure to earthquake standards.
Tornados can happen anywhere, there's no excuse to fail to build/secure =
for tornados.
[Etc.]
Things that cost money are not done unless the probability of the danger =
is higher than vanishingly small. This temblor - at 5.8 with no =
injuries or fatalities - was the largest earthquake on the entire east =
coast in 67 years, and the largest in VA in well over a century. Think =
of the _trillions_ of dollars which could have been put into healthcare, =
public safety, hell, better networking equipment :) we could have used =
instead of making all buildings on the east coast earthquake safe.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
