Experts warn NYC could come down like a house of cards if a 5.0 earthquake struck along [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | April 4, 2018 | Nic White

[C19fan]

New York City could be hit with a $39 billion in damage with 30 million tons of debris clogging the streets if a long-overdue earthquake hit.

The city of 8.5 million people is not thought of as a tremor hot spot, but the five boroughs are riddled with fault lines that could bring dozens of buildings down.

Because the city is so dense and littered with thousands of tall buildings, even a 5.0 magnitude earthquake nearby would cause such damage, experts fear.

[C210N]

Surely climate change makes this infinitely (if not more) worse.

[WayneS]

I guess the only thing for them to do is enter a state of blind panic and start the looting and pillaging... ...right now!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NYC is anchored by very solid rock.
Doubt a 5.0 would cause widespread damage.

[jmaroneps37]

I guess the “experts” dont know Manhattan sits on 600 feet of solid granite. And besides what city could take a 5 level quake?

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Well, that or a few more years of Dem rule.

[C19fan]

A lot of the brick buildings might come down. Brick is very vulnerable to earthquake damage.

[freedumb2003]

>>Surely climate change makes this infinitely (if not more) worse.<<

All that Manhattan fracking.

So dangerous!

It isn’t like muslims with airplanes could cause any damage! So long as they call it a “religion” it is hands off, 3,000 Americans be damned.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Hurricane Sandy was a 'wake up" alert for NYC
many are still waiting for New York State and the Fed.gov. for assistance
"I'm from the government, .. and I'm here to help ! "
Ultimate B. S. !

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So would most cities that are built on inactive fault lines. And if large meteor hit most cities, they would be wiped out. As a society we don’t have the money to make every city earthquake or disaster-proof.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, I’m no expert, but I’m going out on a limb and declaring: NYC would burn if a hydrogen bomb were dropped on it.

And it would get wet if a tidal wave hit.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“infinitely (if not more) worse”

LOL. I spewed coffee on that.

[alloysteel]

New York City is in greater danger from a tsunami generated by an undersea earthquake originating along the west side of the Azores than from a local earthquake.

Real dangers are of sufficient concern without imagining potential dangers.

[2banana]

NYC was under a mile of ice int he last ice age.

CLIMATE CHANGE!

[seawolf101]

[GOPJ]

I guess the only thing for them to do is enter a state of blind panic and start the looting and pillaging... ...right now!

...Or give massive sums of money to liberal 'advocacy' groups...

[HotHunt]

And New Orleans could sink further into all that water that surrounds it. Trying to flush it down the toilet bowl.

Or Los Angeles and San Francisco could fall off into the Pacific Ocean if the earthquakes keep happening.

Oh, and the sky is falling because chicken little said so.

Another iffa, coulda, woulda, shoulda but hasn't happened yet warning from the doomsayers on the Left.

[Salgak]

Am I a bad person for wanting sufficient advance notice for this event, to lay in adequate supplies of popcorn and beer ??

[Reno89519]

I have always wondered what would happen with a large quake in the NYC area. It would be devastating to all of those older buildings. Can you imagine even a few coming down?

I doubt NYC and retrofit the whole city, so it is a ticking time bomb. A 5.2 every hundred years, a 6 or 7 every 670 years or so. While they might weather a 5.2, a 6 or 7 magnitude quake would be incredibly devastating. This would be on par with the big deadly quakes in Bejing and Mexico City.

[mad_as_he$$]

DUH!

Doom Porn.