Posted on 06/03/2018 8:43:58 AM PDT by EdnaMode
When a catastrophic earthquake hits California, buildings will topple and potentially hundreds could be killed.
But what gets less attention is the wrenching aftermath of such a huge temblor, which could leave whole neighborhoods torched by fires uninhabitable and hundreds of thousands of people without a home.
Officials are grappling with where all these quake refugees would go.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 400,000 could be displaced in a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault, which directly runs underneath cities like Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward and Fremont, said Ken Hudnut, the U.S. Geological Surveys science advisor for risk reduction. And its possible that more than 250,000 people in Southern California could be forced out of their homes after a major earthquake on the San Andreas fault, Hudnut said.
Not everyone will need to stay in public shelters many will stay with relatives, friends and hotels. Still, more than 175,000 people may have no other choice than stay at a public shelter in Southern California, which could be could be challenged with acute shortages of food, water and medicine, according to ShakeOut, a USGS report simulating a major Southern California earthquake.
And in the Bay Area, so many buildings built under minimal codes could be so damaged many may be forced to move away for at least several months, and possibly permanently due to the regions housing shortage, according to a separate USGS report on a hypothetical Northern California earthquake, called HayWired.
So many people will be displaced they wont be able to stay within the metro area, Keith Porter, a University of Colorado Boulder professor and chief engineer of the USGS earthquake reports, said of a major Bay Area earthquake. So theyll move away, just like they moved away from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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Since the fault lines are costal and will eventually split off from the mainland - into the sea and done.
Questions:
1. Rationally, how many of these “victims” will have real work skills?
2. If a quake of that suspected/desired magnitude hits, how many of these “victims” will have the intestinal fortitude to WALK to where ever their purposed destination is? Power out, so no fuel for vehicles.
3. How many “EBT subscribers” would hesitate longer than one day, before the historical actions of such folks in a catastrophe, would put the ruined city to the torch?
4. Would such a quake have any financial consequences to the property and finances on Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, or Dianne Feinstein?
Mexico.
Isn’t California, for all intents and purposes, a part of Mexico now?
Maybe Californians need a new kind of ‘CaliforniaCare’ where you’re forced to buy insurance against the possibility of being left homeless in an earthquake. Anyone living in an area prone to disasters (earthquakes, tornados, tsunamis, etc.) should have a plan to deal with the event when it happens.
Mexico would not put up with the silliness that California indulges in.
A nephew, his wife and 2 kiddo’s. They are ALWAYS welcome. He comes from here (NC) and is a military man. They are the ONLY ones from that place that will ever be welcome anywhere near my home. You asked . . .
The obvious choice!
Certainly not to anywhere back in the U.S...
That Headline almost gave me a heart attack! The very thought of being overrun by californicates is SCARY.
Visions of the water rising and the vermin floating into civilized areas comes to mind. Snakes, ants, and rodents of all kinds.
Don't forget fracking. LOL
Of course. :D
People who think they have crystal balls for reading future catastrophic events should never be given the time of day by any news venue anywhere.
The faults in California run through urban, suburban, semi-rural and rural areas. When a quake hits it does not run all long a fault line, even though it is normally centered along a fault line. So it hits ON a fault line, SOMEWHERE. The San Andreas fault line is 750 miles long. The crystal ball pretenders have no idea at all which fault line or where on that fault line “the big one” will hit.
Yours is best answer. I would add, central valley
I just want to remind everyone that there are still Freepers in CA....note the signature name. House is a few hundred yards from the fault!
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