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Originally Posted by DWB
Since you can't tell the difference between small earthquakes that are virtually non destructive and huge F4 and F5 tornadoes that reduce entire towns to rubble every ten years or so, yet appear every single year and only by luck they don't destroy the same neighborhoods, I won't waste your time explaining the boring details of what makes one of them significantly worse than the other and why living in one of those areas is not a bright idea.
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Yeah, that Northridge quake was a itty bitty fellow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles
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In 1994, the 6.7 Northridge earthquake shook the city, causing $12.5 billion in damage and 72 deaths.[
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Those "small" quakes tear up streets, sidewalks and buildings all the time.
They just break up and fall years later when the News is not hot!
My apartment had cracks all though it, I went back to visit six months after I moved out and the roof had caved in. This was 2 years before the Northridge quake.
LA doesn't put "condemned" signs on buildings because their toilet backed up.
"Tiny quakes" don't give you the blood and gore to make you give a shit, but 1000's
of people have things in their homes/offices/building destroyed.
The grocery stores usually look pretty good too, especially the egg, jelly and soda sections.
