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Title: Scientist: Apocalyptic California Quake Will Kill Thousands
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RawStory
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Scien ... due_earthquake_could_0810.html
Published: Aug 11, 2007
Author: Nick Juliano
Post Date: 2007-08-11 19:53:44 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 153
Comments: 10
A government scientist warns a massive earthquake three centuries in the making could shake southern California hard enough to kill thousands of people and cause "billions of dollars in damage," according to news reports. A devastating quake in California's Coachella Valley usually occurs every 150 years, but its been more than 300 years since a quake shook the region. "There will be several thousand dead and billions of dollars in damage," said Lucy Jones, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, according to the Los Angeles Times. Jones, a member of the California Seismic Safety Commission presented her "apocalyptic vision" to members of the earthquake safety panel at a meeting in Rancho Mirage, Calif., the same day a magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit another part of the state, the Times reported. Scientists consider a quake along the San Andreas Fault in the Coachella Valley "a near inevitability," the Palm Springs Desert Sun reports, noting that such a quake could be the "most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history." Palm Spring is one of two cities participating in a study on the effects of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the fault, the paper reports. The USGS is preparing for the "big one" and focusing on areas that would be hardest hit, Jones said. "Almost seven meters of slip built up on the fault since the last earthquake," Jones said, according to KNBC in Los Angeles. "The Coachella Valley would have the highest level of shaking magnified by the sand which would amplify the shaking."
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
One scientist said a few years ago that the total economic impact would be a loss of one trillion dollars if the California aqueduct is taken down. Hopefully,
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There is far more to CA than Hollywood... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California Agriculture (including fruit, vegetables, dairy, and wine) is a major California industry. In 2004 agriculture brought in $31.8 billion in revenue, making it more than twice the size of any other state's agriculture industry. In fact, California is the world's fifth largest supplier of food and agriculture commodities.[1] Agriculture accounts for just slightly over 2% of California's $1.55 trillion gross state product.
An earthquake ain't gonna knock over the heads of cabbage and the Mexican pickers in tents are pretty safe from roof collapse, so we'll be alright there. May sweeps will more than likely be a dud though.
Burkeman1 mentioned the California aqueduct being taken down. That would hurt the farmers in the San Joaquin valley.
I think that was Horse.
Thanks, yes it was Horse. So I posted the amount of agriculture in CA, California is the world's fifth largest supplier of food and agriculture commodities. because the aqueduct makes that possible.
Doesn't the aqueduct take water from the San Joaquin Valley to LA? Seems to me those in the valley would get to keep their own water that way. Of course depending on how far south it broke. I'm all for cutting off subsidies for farmers anyway, and boondoggle water reclamation projects so that you can grow white asparagus in the desert so some yahoo in Baltimore can get it in December is nothing but a subsidy. Karl Marx's plank #7: Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
"Food grows where water flows" are the signs along the aqueduct. The valley is about 200 miles long and 75 miles wide, this is a good way to increase food production. Nothing would grow around Bakersfield without it. I'm not sure the world wants to lose 20% of its food supply. The kind of subsidies I'm against are the ones like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond cooked up, paying farmers NOT to grow tobacco. Water projects are a good use of state govt, as are roads, bridges and damns.
That's my point. This government subsidy has distorted the market and placed food production in a vulnerable place. Just like the government levees and government flood insurance in New Orleans put hundreds of thousands of people and a great deal of America's refining capacity in a vulnerable place. I'm not sure the world wants to lose 20% of its food supply. I doubt it's even a tenth of that. Iowa produces more food energy than does California. It's just that it's not cauliflower in January.It's in a long-term storable form of grain. America ain't gonna starve if they can't have spinach on their Christmas dinner tables.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
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#3. To: Burkeman1, Brian S (#2)
#4. To: robin (#3)
#5. To: SmokinOPs (#4)
#6. To: robin, Horse (#5)
Burkeman1 mentioned the California aqueduct being taken down.
#7. To: SmokinOPs (#6)
#8. To: robin (#7)
So I posted the amount of agriculture in CA, California is the world's fifth largest supplier of food and agriculture commodities. because the aqueduct makes that possible.
#9. To: SmokinOPs (#8)
#10. To: robin (#9)
Nothing would grow around Bakersfield without it.
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