Earthquake

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Far out, that list is mind-boggling.

Never been in an earthquake [1] and really don't think I want to. 8.8!
Wahhh.

Kev

[1] I was ling in Sydney in 1989 when the Newcastle 5.6 earthquake
hit, which did quite a bit of damage, but nothing to extent of Haiti
or Chile obviously. I totally missed it as I was cabling a new video
edit suite and lying on my back under a heap of rack gear and plugging
BNC cables into routers. The company I was working for had the largest
sound stage in Australia and our lighting guy was up on a scissor lift
in the main studio and said it was rather entertaining as the scissor
lift started swaying all over the place. Pass.

 

Bloody hellfire.

 

That's a real eye opener. Bookmarked!

 

**** - it's gone crazy over there.

 

On the plus side, there's unlikely to be any shortage of hardcore when
it comes to laying the foundations for your new gaff.

 

Yes indeed. At least there is some comfort that there have been building
standards mandated and revised since 1949 (IIRC). Which explains why so
many buildings are standing in Chile.

 

Ginge? Ginge?

 

It bounced around a bit after Haiti too.

 

Job-skimming contractors under the military regime probably just
'disappeared'.

 

We were talking with friends about earthquakes when we were there in
January. They have small tremors all the time, like Japan, and now and
again a biggie.

Apparently, all buildings have to be constructed to cope with Richter
Strength (whatever - I forget).

"If it's any more than that, we're fucked anyway," I was told, with a
grin and a shrug.

So Chilean buildings tend to be, indeed, very well built. Which is nice.

I think the casualty figures are amazingly low, considering it was
Richter 8.8, which is Fucking Big.

 

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/20/wooden-house-can-withstand-severe-earthquakes/

Wood looks like the way to go. If you've a few acres, some sort of
sprawling single-storey wooden hacienda thing, with courtyard gardens, lots
of glass and light etc. It's what I'd do.

 

Exactly what I was thinking. The Richter Scale is logartihmic. 8.8
makes Haiti look like a walk in the park. Yet at the moment they are
only talking 1% of the fatalities that Haiti suffered. Hopefully the
capital injection into Haiti will get them to build properly.

Kev

 

Fixed that for you.

 

And it's what we're doing, oddly enough.

 

Fat chance. It'll be skimmed off, stolen, scammed, pissed up against the
wall.

 

Heh.Two minds with a single thought.

 

Charities like these 'tend' to end up with poor people in rich countries
giving money that ends up with rich people in poor countries.

 

Sure thing. After the corrupt local and national government takes 80%.

 

You expect a bunch of Caribbean types to do something properly
*snort*

Even if we re-build the entire island for them it will only get fucked up
later.