[143972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Aug 24 16:27:59 2011
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <0F98AFA3-2695-461A-8A65-4A132217198D@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:24:53 -0400
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 24, 2011, at 9:44 20AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> Tornados can happen anywhere, there's no excuse to fail to =
build/secure for tornados.
>=20
> [Etc.]
>=20
> 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
It's more complex than that: =
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/east-coast-earthquakes/
And eastern cities can experience quakes of a magnitude noteworthy even =
on the West Coast -- see =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina#Postbellum_era_.28=
1865.E2.80.931945.29
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
