[FromLori]

Michio Kaku Warns the World Citizens of Potential Mega Earthquake

http://coupmedia.org/earthquakes/michio-kaku-warns-the-world-citizens-of-potential-mega-earthquake-1901

[OCC]

I feel better there is a 0% trans fat requirement.

[Paladin2]

I think Chuck Wagon Foods has gone out of business. No more bolton biscuits.

(Junk food is the likely cause of a Midrif Fault.)

[Islander7]

"In our life time, we could very well see one of these cities destroyed," Kaku said. "Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, Tehran, Tokyo."

I vote for Tehran.

[JRios1968]

Good thing it’s for the New Madrif Fault...I’m still worried about the New Madrid one...

[Whenifhow]

Since the original post these other requests have been found:

Link to RFI for Emergency Blankets:

http://goo.gl/pGTyX

Link to RFI for Under Water Bodybags:

http://goo.gl/lsm8k

The gov is requesting bids on 210 million liters of water

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=62cccef98e5833104bddc6956bf68170&tab=core&_cview=0

Now they want gas? Yep. (see below)

The following info is from Urban survival.

http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

Quake Planning

Now they want gas? Yep. Government’s got a presolicitation notice out for 24-thousand gallons of gasoline and 135,000 gallons of diesel in each state for NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TX, and LA. That’s 1.272 million gallons they’re wondering about; how much to commit to 24-hour delivery in each state.

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=ed2fb661961ec48159a24635774679bc&tab=core&_cview=0

File under lining up ducks in order not to get Katrina’ed or Rita’ed?

A couple of other items on the pending Midwest quake front. One is this discussion in December on the FEMA blog about contingency planning.

http://blog.fema.gov/2010/12/70-earthquake-in-midwest-planning-for.html

The other is possible impact of such a quake which the University of Illinois has done a lot of work on including hundreds of pages of planning docs here.

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/14810

The most useful one is the single volume piece here which outlines the disaster scenarios which should give you a good idea where the 7-million planning number came from.

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/14810/ImpactofNewMadridSeismicZoneEarthquakeso%20theCentral%20USAVol1.pdf?sequence=3