100 Years Since the Great Quake

[astrosfan90]

How crazy must this have been? It's really hard to even imagine.

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What would happen if something like this hit today? Yikes.

 

[maddogchen]

Most of SF would crumble into the sea. And the fundies would celebrate as another sinful city falls under God's wrath.

But seriously, there was a show on the discovery/history? channel a few nights ago talking about this. how some districts are built right on top of the ruins of the 1906 quake that they don't have much support to resist another one. Lets just hope it doesn't happen again.

 

[techs]

Good thing it didn't happen last year.
People on this forum would be arguing not to rebuild.

 

[conjur]

PBS had a great special on it last night.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
Most of SF would crumble into the sea. And the fundies would celebrate as another sinful city falls under God's wrath.

But seriously, there was a show on the discovery/history? channel a few nights ago talking about this. how some districts are built right on top of the ruins of the 1906 quake that they don't have much support to resist another one. Lets just hope it doesn't happen again.

Sadly... It will happen again. And SF is not much better prepared for it now than it was in 1906. The quake that happened during the '89 World Series was considerably smaller than the '06 quake and we all saw the damage that occured.

But SF is not unique in this regard. There are pleanty of other places all over the world that are disasters waiting to happen. Discovery had a show about a rift zone that runs from Portland to Vancouver that could produce an Indonesian type quake and tsunami at any time. Alaska has a 7+ earthquake almost once a year. (7.9 four years ago) Japan seems to have to deal with it every few years as well.

When it happens we'll deal with it.