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Subject: [Spridgets] EARTHQUAKE!!!
From: b-evans at earthlink.net (Robert Evans)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:09:42 -0700
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Jim Johnson wrote:  "You will be in a California earthquake at least once a
year even if you move around."

Now, Jim, we have been having this argument for several years, now.  Yes, I
know that as a Weather Fabricator you are biased.  But let's get some facts
on the table.  These come from the U.S. Geological Survey and your old
outfit, NOAA.

1   If you live in California, you will be in thousands of quakes a year.
But, they are so insignificant you do not even feel them.
2.  The estimates that there are millions of earthquakes throughout America
each year.  Again, you folks in Virginia, Florida and the rest of the
country simply do not feel them.
3.  There have been far more fatalities from tornados than from earthquakes
since they began keeping records.
4.  Alaska skews the earthquake records for all of the U.S., having the top
10 earthquakes in magnitude, and 13 of the top 20 (Hawaii, Missouri and
California accounting for the rest.
5.  Only 2 people have died in earthquakes since 2000, according to the
USGS, while the National Weather Service claims there have been 3. In the
same period of time, there have been 1,150 deaths in tornados.
6.  Since 1955 (a cut-off year used, for whatever reason, by the NWS in
separating data), 4,721 people have met death in tornados, but only 379 in
earthquakes.

If you are interested in annual comparisons:

Year      T        E
1955    129      1
1956      83    
1957    193      1
1958      67    
1959      58    28
1960        46  
1961        52  
1962        30  
1963      31    
1964      73   128
1965    301      7
1966      98    
1967    114     
1968    131     
1969      66      1
1970      73    
1971    159    65
1972      27    
1973      89    
1974    366     
1975      60    2
1976      44    
1977      43    
1978      53    
1979      84    
1980      28    
1981      24    
1982      64    
1983      34      2
1984    122     
1985      94    
1986      15    
1987      59      9
1988      32    
1989      50    64
1990      53    
1991      39      2
1992      39      3
1993      33      2
1994      69    60
1995      30      1
1996        25  
1997      67    
1998    130     
1999      94    
2000      40    
2001      40    
2002      55    
2003      54      3
2004      35    
2005      38    
2006      67    
2007      81    
2008    125     
2009      21    
2010      45
2011    549     

So go West young man, to California where you will be safe!

Buster Evans

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