The Really Big One

[jazzy_dave]

An article about the biggest quake that might happen in the next fifty years but uncertain as to when. And it is not the San Andreas faultline.

The Really Big One

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

The tragedy, of course, is that there's virtually no preparation, with so much infrastructure set to be demolished, and no early warning system to at least help reduce the extent of the devastation. And as the article notes, with such events occurring there, on average, every 250 years or so, and the last in 1700 - it's not something that's likely to be a very long time in the future.