Posted on 08/14/2021 8:16:43 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Some friends of mine there said they didn’t even feel it and their animals (cat & dog) didn’t react at all. They said some friends of theirs about 40 miles away in higher elevation lost a few hanging plants and their pool did the “earthquake slosh dance.”
That’s good news.
Wow....that is a miracle!
Glad DR was spared.
Wondering how long before the Klintoons try to raise more $$$$ for “Haiti”.
Evil villains.
Between the geology and the distance from the epicenter, the shaking was much reduced by the time it reached DR. This is a totally different situation than say, church bells ringing from shocks in New England if the New Madrid fault slips in a big way. Or even New Madrid leveling St. Louis.
[...No disrespect to you, but you have an advanced education, and it continually amazes me what is not taught at at least a required University freshman “General Studies” level about possibly the greatest killer Mo’ Nature unleashes on humans (earthquakes and their related effects)... ]
Please see my post above. (#124).
Agreed about the villains, however.
My observation is that harsh winters force a sort of organization and discipline in pre-industrial cultures that those in warmer climates do not require to survive. We are riding on the coattails of such, but it is degrading rapidly...
Occasionally, wise leadership in a tropical country recognizes that the strengths of such behavior can be greatly beneficial in raising their own country to improvement and strength, too. But, that is the exception and / or quite hard to put in place for the generations required. It may be impossible in the modern world.
The “Truth” is OFTEN appalling.
A bit woke but otherwise fairly good article about the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the immediate how’s and why’s it caused so much misery.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/156382f2727c40a28db502817f7d18f3
I didn’t major in geology nor was a general studies science class required for a degree in science.
For something like that, I’d be going back to high school earth science, some 50 years ago.
I did take a physical oceanology course as a degree requirement, and a year each of chemistry and physics, but geology does not factor in to weather very much.
Geography, yes. Geology, no.
No argument with you. My point is:
How can a general studies science class (or equivalent proficiency or other credit for equivalent background) NOT be required for a degree in ANYTHING?
And specifically:
How can a brief (week?) study in arguably the most deadly-to-modern-humans natural phenomenon (outside of disease issues), wherever it might be in a curriculum, NOT be required for a degree in ANYTHING?
Hell, I’m an old STEM major, and I got no such education either, but simple curiosity about the stunning damage and death tolls in some quakes led me to learn a bit more. I find it incomprehensible we are not educated, at least a little more, on such deadly matters.
I have an app called Quakewatch. It lists earthquakes by different categories - largest, latest, closest, and nearest. I assume the difference between nearest and closest has to do with depth and distance on the surface.
It’s not free, but not expensive, and I find it interesting.
Just noted that Haiti had another quake about an hour ago in the same area. It was a 4.7.
That’s what the system required and when you live in an area that is virtually earthquake free, it just isn’t on your radar.
This Reuters piece offers a bit more detail:
How anyone can read that and not feel for the people there?
During the recent political unrest I expressed my dismal assessment of Haiti’s future prospects here, but this is a heart-rending natural disaster. Prayers up.
That’s what the system required and when you live in an area that is virtually earthquake free, it just isn’t on your radar.
Exactly correct, it is the system and circumstances, but, supposedly a crucial function of a University, and in particular it's General Studies program, as opposed to a "simple" job training program, is to broaden students' education. That particularly in areas they might be weak in due to a prior education system or simple inclination / interest / isolation (of sorts) excluding those other areas. This concept of a broader education has become perverted into political and moral, er, immoral crusades: Instead of learning, for example, some basic things about the processes and characteristics of true mass disasters, to "broaden their education" students are required to be taught all sorts of gunk. That "gunk" was generally less harmful, some was actually interesting, and there was usually some balance, when I was in college: Now what is so taught is destroying us. But, that's another topic, well pounded to death on FR. ;-)
—”My observation is that harsh winters force a sort of organization and discipline in pre-industrial cultures that those in warmer climates do not require to survive...
It may be impossible in the modern world. “
YES!
And I have come to the belief that attempting to change it is a trap for democracy.
The problem is, freedom is not workable for some cultures.
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