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There is at least one purported legend referring to it from a tribal source.
Posted on 01/27/2021 8:26:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
Richter TNT for Seismic Example
Magnitude Energy Yield (approximate)
-1.5 6 ounces Breaking a rock on a lab table
1.0 30 pounds Large Blast at a Construction Site
1.5 320 pounds
2.0 1 ton Large Quarry or Mine Blast
2.5 4.6 tons
3.0 29 tons
3.5 73 tons
4.0 1,000 tons Small Nuclear Weapon
4.5 5,100 tons Average Tornado (total energy)
5.0 32,000 tons
5.5 80,000 tons Little Skull Mtn., NV Quake, 1992
6.0 1 million tons Double Spring Flat, NV Quake, 1994
6.5 5 million tons Northridge, CA Quake, 1994
7.0 32 million tons Hyogo-Ken Nanbu, Japan Quake, 1995; Largest Thermonuclear Weapon
7.5 160 million tons Landers, CA Quake, 1992
8.0 1 billion tons San Francisco, CA Quake, 1906
8.5 5 billion tons Anchorage, AK Quake, 1964
9.0 32 billion tons Chilean Quake, 1960
10.0 1 trillion tons (San-Andreas type fault circling Earth)
12.0 160 trillion tons (Fault Earth in half through center,
OR Earth's daily receipt of solar energy)
I just moved back from Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island. I was working over there during the week the last few years but my home is in eastern Washington. I was always thinking about the big one and being stuck over there. All of the tsunami models showed Oak harbor to be safe, but Deception Pass Bridge was a definite goner, along with our water supply main which came from Anacortes that crossed under bridge as well. They don’t have enough water supply on the island to make up that loss. We figured the Navy would pull up an aircraft carrier with a desalinization plant because of the Navel Air Station located there.
I know a woman that works (worked?) in Seattle awhile ago and had her car topper filled with emergency supplies in case the quake happened while she was at work. Some people scoffed at her, but as long as she had an attitude of being prepared and not being afraid I was for her.
I had to look up how much water a carrier can make. The web said 100,000 gallons a day are extra than what the normal operations require. Lets say they could ration the ship’s water and be able to supply 200,000. There are 356,000 people on Whidbey Island, so each person could get 0.6 gallons a day.
Although I bet there are a lot of water wells on the island that could supply water if they can get electricity to them to run the pumps.
I have camping water-filters in my various emergency kits so making drinking water in Western Washington won’t be a problem. Until somebody tries to steal it from me!
And speaking of somebody wanting my water filter, I’m guessing Seattle (and Portland and Vancouver, etc.) would be wanting their own aircraft carriers!
Not quite sure about that population figure since Oak Harbor was the largest city at about 23,000.
A lot of small private wells. No really big production wells like I have dealt with over here in the Yakima valley(1,000 to 2,000gpm). I was the City Engineer in Oak Harbor and our largest well was less than 200gpm.
I had a lot of dealings with the federal emergency planners. It always came down to the water supply and rationing what would be left over after serving the hospitals and other high risk places.
We had a private mobile home park just outside of the City limits that wells had went dry and they were lucky to be getting 30gpm.
The federal emergency planners new the loss of Deception Pass Bridge and our 24-inch watermain was not something to be taken lightly.
This topic was posted , thanks BenLurkin.
There is at least one purported legend referring to it from a tribal source.
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