Iranian Earthquake

[Almaci]

There is no timetable, do a search ya twit.
Oh and Bam stood for 2000 years so im sure people felt reasonably secure there as well.

[Diff-chan]

You said it, you produce the article to back up your statement.

That's how it works around here. You, of all people, should know that.

[DOVESKI]

Duck and cover drills rocked!

[Rumpy]

My uncle (can't remember the exact town he lives in, it's about a 40 minute drive from San Francisco, CA) is building a house for himself on his property. When it's done he's going to move out of his current house and move into the one one he built (and rent out out his old house). The house he's building is behind the house he lives in now (his property is much longer than it is wide). To make a long story short, it cost him tens of thousands of dollars to get the permits and the earthquake proof foundation of his new house. When I found out how much it took just to get the foundation done (for a relativly small house) it blew me away. My point in all of this is that Cali has strict regulations to earthquake proof buildings because they know how prone to quakes the state is (this is in defense of what Diff is saying). With places like Ban, I totally understand that it's a different situation, but the home government there should do something about it, knowing that quakes could very well happen in the area. I'll admit I know nothing about places like Ban, but just knowing that "Bam stood for 2000 years so im sure people felt reasonably secure there as well", really doesn't do anything. Times and the world itself have changed. A lot of changes all over the world need to be addressed.

[Diff-chan]

Rumpy, yep.

Bottom line, as soon as seismic research started to hit the newspapers (like what, 100 years ago), and as soon as people started to learn about fault lines and how they are related to earthquakes, and as soon as Iran learned that they were on a bunch of fault lines, the government should have had engineers studying the problem, and should have had people building actual seismic-proof buildings instead of the crap they had in Bam. They had plenty of time to do this, they had plenty of time to see how quakes have devastated San Fran, Tokyo, etc. There's no way anyone can debate otherwise, because there are 35,000 people dead due to this neglect and apathy.

And yet, the only thing Almaci can do in this argument is try to spin it into something America is doing wrong, in this case some blabber about how California is falling off the edge of the world. He does it in every thread. Quite frankly it is a rather weak attempt Almaci.

[Almaci]

Again no i did not, you choose to read things I never said.

[Diff-chan]

Likewise we KNOW LA will one day dissapear into the ocean once nature has had enough of it and decides to shift the San Andreas faultline plates a lil so why are people still moving to LA and why is the Government allowing its largest economy and millions of its brightest people to live in a place wich they know will perish someday?

Hmm, "why is the Government blah blah blah", sounds like you spinning this whole thread into talking about how the US government is so evil.

Oh yea, and produce some data to back this up (with a timetable) or shut the fuck up.