I don't think this guy did any research on wind turbines. One blade alone is longer than a rail car.
My thought too - Made a trip to State of NY recently and when I got to the State was the first time/place I saw some wind turbines - counted 14 on one hill and only 3 were turning.
I had a construction yard with a quansit hut warehouse back in ‘81 near where Jones is standing. There was just one experimental wind tower there. It was beautiful there just before the boom of the eighties. The quakes started in ‘85-’94, with the Northridge quake where I happened to live there at the time. Man, I never thought the earth could move that violently. On second thought there was this chick one night.......
Doesn’t scare me any more than reports of fire and brimstone raining down on Sodom and Gomorrah would have troubled my far away ancestors. If somehow the reputation of those towns reached them and then news came through of their demise they’d probably have concluded what a lot of us will when the West Coast gets nailed ... God will not be mocked.
Saying the sky is falling does no good after the 10th time.
If she wants to get people with money to pay attention, she needs to put the damage into specific economic impacts;
- In CITY_X $ will be required to fix the broken water lines or $ amount to replace/retrofit these locations (That cross the fault). I suspect the retrofit is less than rebuilding.
- In CITY_X $ will be needed to repair (fuel/gas/water) pipeline or $ to replace/retrofit theses areas.
etc.
That will get people and companies to move. Even if the numbers are off a bit, they’ll get the right people looking.
She retired last year from the USGS and Caltech Seismology Lab after 31 yrs of work at USGS and now runs a policymaker’s communication firm.
I don’t know her stance on global warming, but she came from an arena where she likely knows about HAARP. If she doesn’t then she might be more of a bureaucratic PhD than a real scientist.
IMHO, there is probably more risk of HAARP triggering the “Big One” than normal events, but we are due for a seismic event and the smaller ones have died out for several years now.
The appeal to seismic retrofits isn’t that significant, as it is now all codified in the IBC and CaBC for at least the last 20 years and continues to be updated. The problem is most engineers in authority don’t know the recent codes and more and more design work is outsourced by the Internet to firms without any experience in designing seismic features in their structures. Special inspections are known by some municipalities, but generally unknown by 80% of the construction workforce, even QC, so they aren’t always implemented.
The largest impact will be infrastructure.
We already have our Doomsday Scenario - Yellowstone goes “Krakatoa” on us. That is pretty much the end of North America.
And, of course, for a less apocalyptic doomsday, there the New Madrid fault.
That explains things! San Francisco built two windmills in Golden Gate park, to pump water for irrigation. The first one was completed and operational in 1903. The big SF earthquake happened in 1906. They fell into disrepair later on. In 1981, one windmill was restored to active use. The Loma Prieta Earthquake happened in 1989. It's the wind shifting geological formations!