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Originally posted by Ossie
What you don't want to see is a fault line with little to no activity for extended periods
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according to the map 1/2 way down this:
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/EarthSC202Notes/quakes.htm
page we in wisconsin are in greater danger than 2/3's of california.
we've had nothing in liek 100 years maybe 200. guess that "big one" is coming huh?
(I'd STILL rather live here than somewhere i might die from falling debris almost any day of the week)
I'm pretty sure that the midwest is either due or overdue for a big one. You just need to be prepared with emergency supplies, and the knowledge of what not to do. People generally like to forego an earthquake kit, and they generally like to run outside for fear of a building collapse, even though they've just exposed themselves to falling debris and powerlines when the aftershock hits. Unless there's a big empty field or parking lot you can go to, I'd stay inside. They also like to call 911 "to report an earthquake", but you can chalk that one up to hysteria. You just have to know that the phone lines will be clogged (although less so now thanks to cellular), and emergency services will be largely unavailable.
Of course, we are talking about people, and therefore complacancy, so even in an earthquake zone, we make stupid choices. The store that I work at likes to stack boxes on top of the shelves, sometimes six-high, for backstock and display purposes. If a sizeable quake hits, while the building will remain standing, any customers in those aisles (or workers like me) are going to be screwed, all because either the managers there are completely oblivious as to where exactly we live and work, or because the store is part of a national chain, and the policy of stocking goods was made by somebody living far away from an earthquake zone. Really though, earthquakes are easy to prepare for. All somebody has to do is take those boxes down and put them somewhere else, or rig up something to secure them in place, but that won't likely happen until just after people are killed as a result.
