Big Quake 'Certain' In San Francisco By 2032

Independent (UK) ^ | 4-23-2003 | Andrew Gumbel

[SuperSonic]

I'll mark my calendar.

[xrp]

Sodom and Gomorrah II?

[Young Rhino]

When this occurs, habitrails will be destroyed, freeing gerbils to rule the Bay area.

[Russell Scott]

When the Sons of God come forth preaching THE Gospel of the Kingdom, any city that rejects God's final offer of eternal salvation will be wiped off the face of the earth by destructive angels. Until then, San Francisco, and all other cities on the planet, have an excuse to exist. Of course, if they accept the Gospel of the Kingdom, that city will become part of God's new Edenic paradise Kingdom.

Luke 10
8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

[Political Junkie Too]

San Francisco is almost certain to suffer a severe earthquake in the next 30 years...

I've been living in the Bay Area since 1985, and every year since then (and many before) I have heard that the Big One was coming within 30 years. I'm almost 20 years into the first 30 year prediction, apparently with another 30 years to go.

-PJ

[Carry_Okie]

Already posted from a different source.

[GrandMoM]

Sodom and Gomorrah II? ....first thing that popped in my mind too!!!

[GrandMoM]

and 16,000 buildings were subsequently declared unusable.

....is this figure right?

[GrandMoM]

The new study comes as the latest bad news for a city that has gone from dotcom boom to bust and watched its tourism business dwindle under the twin pressures of recession and fears of a terrorist attack. ....ah, I think they need to add a third pressure, that would be the stench added by the homeless!!!!!!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Does it bother anyone else that a newspaper headline describes a 62% chance as "certain"?

[GulliverSwift]

We don't want the whole city/metro area to go under, just a some select blocks of the city. That CDC would have much less to deal with.

[SBprone]

Maybe they were unusable until somebody fixed a broken water pipe, or got the front door unstuck.

[SpyGuy]

"watched its tourism business dwindle under the twin pressures of recession and fears of a terrorist attack."

Oh, is that why the tourism has dwindled. I thought it might have something to do with:

1. Hoards of homeless drug addicts and vagrants badgering people for money on every corner, and urinating/defecating on the streets, in the doorways, in the parks, and in the fountains.

2. A collective group of inhabitants that are so far to the left and outside the bounds of mainstream American values, that most parents wouldn't want their children to witness the freak-shows that pass for residents of San Francisco. Remember, SF decided that taxpayers have to foot the bill for sex change operations for it's "trans-gender" city employees.

3. That SF has become "ground zero" for the (often violent) anti-war/anti-Bush/anti-America protest rallies. Who wants to visit a city where the "peaceniks" are armed with Molotov cocktails and socks full of rocks--and where the city DA releases these criminals after the police arrest them.

4. That SF is a city on the verge of a health meltdown. With rampant AIDS and hepatitis, combined with streets so unsanitary, that the city has taken to spraying them down at night with chlorine bleach (see item 1 above). And SARS is sure to follow.

Hey, I'll take a recession, earthquake, and even terrorists any day compared to the crap that goes on in San Francisco.

[Political Junkie Too]

you don't consider 1989 big?

Not the way the experts do, as I understand it.

-PJ

[lilylangtree]

The Queer Capital of the World destroyed. Surely an improvement!

[jiggyboy]

You beat me to it. The little secret that isn't being reported is that I heard these same numbers ten years ago -- 2/3 chance of a big earthquake by 2022.