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Posted on 05/28/2007 5:39:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
If you lived through the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake in 1994 you know what a mere seven seconds of shaking can do. Could you imagine over two minutes of intense shaking? Scientists can.
"When it comes to natural hazards, southern Californians are at great risk," says Lucy Jones, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coordinator of the new USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project. "We all know this. Earthquakes, wildfires, floods, tsunamis, landslides and coastal erosion are inevitable and its time to look at them closely and prepare."
Scientists from around the Nation are being pulled together by the USGS to work with community partners in a new effort to imagine the worst - in detail - so that communities can plan for it. One of the first projects of the USGS Project is to create a plausible earthquake scenario for Southern California. That scenario will look very closely at the secondary hazards that result from "The Big One."
"It's not just a major earthquake that will harm people or local economies. It will be the impact of landslides, fires, and collapsed infrastructure," says Jones. "These are what take a disaster into the realm of catastrophe."
The USGS is bringing together scientific experts with multiple specialties to partner with communities in Southern California in an effort to reduce death and destruction from natural hazards. Estimates of expected losses from these hazards may exceed $3 billion per year in the eight counties of southern California.
"Los Angeles has long recognized that, not only are we multi-cultural but we are multi-hazards as well. Unfortunately it took Katrina to let others realize that natural disasters are as devastating as man-made disasters," said Ellis Stanley, General Manager of City of Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Department. "One of the brightest spots in the collaborative process is the relationships and interaction with our USGS partners-in-preparedness as we move forward to truly make our community more disaster resilient,"
The devastating consequences, including loss of life and injury, replacement costs of buildings and infrastructure, loss of function of critical facilities like hospitals and schools, service and infrastructure outages, business interruption, loss of jobs, and a decrease in the quality of life.
With a population estimated at nearly 23 million, the costs of natural hazards risks are growing along with population at more than 10 percent per year in the eight counties of southern California. Decision-making in such a dynamic environment is difficult and emergency managers and planners are looking to science for help.
"The USGS's new multi-hazard program is a welcome addition to the resources available to emergency managers in Southern California," said Henry Renteria, Director of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, which coordinates the state's preparedness, response and recovery efforts. "The resources available as a result of the program will greatly help Southern California emergency planners and managers in their efforts to protect lives, property and the environment."
Odd comment.
If I didn’t know better I’d say he was trying to say backwards what he would get fired for saying forwards.
The Northridge quake shook for more than 7 seconds. I was there.
Unfortunately it took Katrina to let others realize that natural disasters are as devastating as man-made disasters,”
I wonder what manmade *disasters* he was thinking of that can even compare to what nature can dish out?
Is this referring to the NOLA part of Katrina as "natural disasters" or what Katrina really was, a "man made disaster?"
Literally speaking, aren't all disasters man made?-- because nature naturally recovers, unless interupted by man; destruction to "man made" has to be rebuilt.
I am offended and I would like some free counseling and reparations for my suffering. Women are just as capable as men of causing disasters.
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Mt St Helens...exposed stumps, muddy channel. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Photo/framework.html
Ditto that! It seemed like an hour but it went on for at least 25-30 seconds where I'm located.
> Women are just as capable as men of causing disasters.
For proof look to New Zealand. Helen has been trying real hard for a few years now, and she is about to succeed...
Plenty of activity on the San Andreas Fault these days problem is that there is virtually no activity on the section of the fault between Parkfield and Devore. The fault seems locked there much as it must have been in 1857 when the fault ruptured along 350-400km giving an 8.0 earthquake. How long does it take to unzip that much fault?
http://www.cnt.ru/users/chas/sthelens.htm
Mount St. Helens provides a rare opportunity to study transient geologic processes which produced, within a few months, changes which geologists might otherwise assume required many thousands of years. The volcano, therefore, challenges our way of thinking about how the earth works, how it changes, and the time scale we are accustomed to attaching to its formations. These processes and their effects allow Mount St. Helens to serve as a miniature laboratory for catastrophism.
Illegal mexican riots? Or for that matter, invasions of illegal aliens in general.
I don’t know but I don’t want to be here when it happens.
Heh... it’s no wonder that the strongest opposition to Alvarez’ theory right now comes from the UK. It will spread with the same strength (and by the same politics) as the global warming / human-induced climate change myth.
Think of the Superdome in New Orleans writ large, only with no one being able to talk to each other.
When that section goes, Las Vegas will be in trouble, as the I-15 passes through there and will have sections of that interstate highway collapse.
No more Friday night 400 miles of traffic to Sin City.
The key piece of evidence for the Alvarez hypothesis was the finding of thin deposits of clay containing the element iridium at the interface between the rocks of the Cretaceous and those of the Tertiary period (called the K-T boundary after the German word for Cretaceous). Iridium is a rare element on earth (although often discharged from volcanoes), but occurs in certain meteorites at concentrations thousands of times greater than in the earth's crust...
meanwhile, in the UK, they are trying to explain this:
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/forest.htm
The North Sea
Earth In Upheaval - page 160
The stormy North sea, bordered by Scotland, England, the Low Countries, Denmark and Norway, is a very recent basin. The geologists assume that the area was once before occupied by a sea, but that early in the Ice Age the detritus carried from Scotland and Scandinavia filled it, so that there was no sea left: it was all turned into land. The river Rhine flowed through this land and the Thames was its tributary; the mouth of the river was somewhere near Aberdeen.
In post-glacial times, so it is assumed, in the Subboreal period, which began about 2000 years before the present era and endured to about 800 BC, large parts of the area were added to the sea. The Atlantic Ocean sent its waters along the Scottish and Norwegian shores, and also through the Channel that had been formed only a short while before. Human artifacts and bones of land animals were dredged from the bottom of the North Sea; and along the shores of Scotland and England, as well as on the Dogger Bank in the middle of the sea, stumps of trees with their roots still in the ground were found...
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