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Monday, April 10, 2006

Happy Birthday, Earthquake!

Posted by on April 10 at 19:39 PM

The anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake is coming up, and this article in the New York Times is a harrowing depiction of what happened, along with some post-hoc scientific analysis.

I want to die in an earthquake (or some other suitably historical event), but I’m still chilled by morbid earthquake spectacles, especially this Library of Congress site, which has a film made in the immediate aftermath of the quake.

Scared yet? Here’s King County’s comforting (ha!) predictions and advice regarding earthquakes in the Seattle area.


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Speaking of quakes, where's the big one that's going to bring down the viaduct--you know the one that was used to 'scare' people into voting for I-912?

"It hasn't happened yet, therefore it can't happen". Hmm. Not working for me.

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