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Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote2015-07-17 02:21 pm
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"show you all your daemons and desires and dark sides/ all of your colonies and continental divides"

More fun with the Cascadia subduction zone: "The Really Big One." "A grown man is knocked over by ankle-deep water moving at 6.7 miles an hour. The tsunami will be moving more than twice that fast when it arrives." (via)

For more pre-disaster worries, here's a long piece on confronting the New Madrid seismic zone: Part 1, Part 2. (via?)

Photo of Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria while students at Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1885, before going on to become the first licensed female doctors in Western medicine in their respective countries. Make sure to click See More. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Never Look Away," Vienna Teng.

[identity profile] oracne.livejournal.com 2015-07-18 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
One of my closest friends from college went to MCP.

[identity profile] thistleingrey.livejournal.com 2015-07-19 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
The New Madrid links are useful--and the writer's right, Californians do wonder how Missouri could possibly top our interlace of seismic zones. :) (Not only me.) The river, yeah.

My personal wondering is whether a Cascadian Subduction Zone or Juan de Fuca shift could provoke Rodgers/Hayward/Calaveras or even Imperial (Baja) into action. That might be enough to equal the economic and human toll of a significant New Madrid quake--not that one wants such competition.