[143961] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Wed Aug 24 10:16:55 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:16:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <0F98AFA3-2695-461A-8A65-4A132217198D@ianai.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patrick@ianai.net]
> Sent: 24 August 2011 14:46
> To: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
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> 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.
> >
> > They should be.
> > They should be.
> > You should.
> >
> > Earthquakes can happen anywhere. There's no excuse to fail to
> build/secure to earthquake standards.
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> Tornados can happen anywhere, there's no excuse to fail to build/secure
> for tornados.
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> [Etc.]
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> 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=20years, and the largest in VA in well over a century. Thin=
k
> 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.
Indeed, we are not going to be building earthquake proof buildings in Lond=
on for example.
Riot proof maybe..
--
Leigh Porter
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