jeffyoulose t1_j9n25cs wrote
Reply to comment by notunek in Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Tajikistan, near border with China by Papppi-56
Can't happen in California. California faults are not the subduction kind and can't create earth quakes stronger than 7.5. Plus California has the strongest building codes. Everything is rock solid.
People died in Turkey because of shoddy construction
neo_sporin t1_j9n4wtf wrote
Can’t is always a funny word in this context.
thejoeface t1_j9n9imy wrote
But there are 7.9 quakes recorded. And source on the level limit? A quick google doesn’t seem to support this. Since I live in california, I’d love this to be true.
jeffyoulose t1_j9ogccx wrote
Not in recent memory I think all the 8.0s were from pre 1920s. And some older quake magnitudes were estimated.
Ashmidai t1_j9n8jqv wrote
Tell that to everyone living and working in buildings constructed on reclaimed land.
Nozinger t1_j9pb4oq wrote
And northern japan isn't in a region where earthquakes should surpass a magnitude of 8.5 and yet they famously got hit by a 9.1 in 2011.
The word can't only works until nature shows us that it absolutely can if it comes to the absolute worst case.
But it is true there are probably a lot less deaths in southern california than there are in turkey but it is still going to be a catastrophic event. There will still be thousands of deaths.
jeffyoulose t1_j9rypge wrote
If the turkey quake happened in LA. The death toll would be in the hundreds and not 10s of thousands due to all those building collapses.
Just think of Loma prieta quake and the north ridge quake. Nothing in terms of mass deaths.
Kale t1_j9t445a wrote
It was kind of expected, but the Webb telescope has already found galaxies that should be too massive/dense to exist. It's likely that our current models need some tweaking.
UnluckyScorpion t1_j9nk76r wrote
And utter lack of koordination in rescue efforts, many died in the rubble waiting for help..
Mental_Medium3988 t1_j9ocu7b wrote
newer buildings are fine, and the newer the better. plenty of older buildings either cant be or arent retrofitted and those will be the problem. same up here in the pnw. i work in a warehouse and its gonna be fucked in a big one. people will likely die from ammonia exposure alone.
jeffyoulose t1_j9oeuyx wrote
True. Pacific north west does have subduction fault. Juan de fuca plate is full of them. So I definitely would worry about the PNW. But it also has less population than California with Seattle and Vancouver being the largest cities that are no where near the size of LA.
tak18 t1_j9rec4v wrote
There is a subduction zone in northern California (Cascadia).
jeffyoulose t1_j9ryibq wrote
Yes. That's Jefferson state. Too far to be considered San Francisco and more like Oregon.
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