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To: conservative cat
Here's the National Seismic Hazard Map:

You're basically completely safe from earthquakes in South Florida, South Texas, North Wisconsin, and Minnesota and North Dakota. First two can be dispensed with due to hurricanes, of course, if you're looking at risk avoidance.

Remaining states do have tornadoes but the risk of a specific house getting hit by one is vanishingly small; people overestimate tornado damage because there are lots of tornadoes a year, and they create spectacular photogenic damage; but the damage paths are really, really, really narrow. Also people get put under a LOT of tornado watches and warnings, most of which end up with no tornado hitting them, but it creates anxiety.

One weird thing I've noticed is the Mag 7 1886 Charleston South Carolina earthquake gets very little "run" in the media or on FR. Never see articles or documentaries on it, or people mentioning it on FR. Not like there aren't pictures of damage, and good accounts of it.

18 posted on 02/25/2006 10:07:05 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

10% probability of gains isn't enough to get me to invest in a stock. I'm sure not going to gamble that Mother Earth will get PMS while I'm alive and crash the whole place around us.


52 posted on 02/25/2006 1:46:18 PM PST by B4Ranch (No expiration date is on the Oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
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To: Strategerist

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/htdocs/NV-earthquakes.html


53 posted on 02/25/2006 1:53:10 PM PST by B4Ranch (No expiration date is on the Oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
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