if you build on a volcano...
...and it erupts and destroys your property, should we directly or indirectly be forced to financially help you rebuild or to even save your ass?
...I don't think so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes_(2000%E2%80%93present)
...what do you think...
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...I'm in the minority here, who would have thought...
...I don't have the tax or premium dollars to keep helping people build and rebuild on volcanoes...
...being on a fixed income, with the impact of war in Europe, with inflation and the cost of everything rising here, (and with no significant governmental or economic help for MY troubles) I would appreciate people not taking what little money I do have out of my pocket...
...those kind-hearted souls with deep pockets should feel free to dig even deeper to help...
...but I'll bet many of those kind-hearted souls would oppose any SS increase in help for me...
...and I don't even like volcanoes...
...I was pleading for was with trillions of new spending we couldn't find money for dental or vision or an increase in SS but we have an endless open-ended money supply for people who want to build or rebuild on volcanoes...
...with an unpredictable natural disaster I can see helping an area rebuild once, twice maybe three times...
...but with clockwork-predictable localized semi-yearly disaster events, after the 20th rebuild I'd say it's time to do something different...
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."...Einstein
...if you've got money to piss away, make a donation...
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Natural disasters are part of the package of living on this Earth. The Earth is alive, and it moves — always has, always will. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water — all in motion, sometimes violent motion.
What do I think? I think it behooves us to help one another, in good times and bad.
...can see I'm going nowhere with this, we'll have to agree to disagree about a blank check...
...thank you (and everyone) for your input...
...for me, charity begins at home...
Unlike California's faults, Seattle also has a fault along a subductions zone. (Seattle has numerous faults and earthquakes are common) However, the subduction zone's impact was not discovered until 1996. It is estimated at an earthquake of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the area at 9pm January, 26 1700. Evidence of the earthquake exists in destroyed forests.
A 9.0 magnitude Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake ripping across the 700-mile CSZ fault line occurs on average once every 200 to 500 years.
The last major CSZ earthquake and tsunami occurred in 1700.
Recent subduction zone fault earthquakes around the world underscore the similar challenges we will face when the next CSZ earthquake and tsunami occurs in our region:
Indonesia (2004): M9.1; 228,000 deaths
Chile (2010): M8.8; 500 deaths
Northeast Japan (2011): M9.0; 18,000 deaths https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2022/06/14/cascadia-rising-earthquake-test/
https://seattle.fandom.com/wiki/Cascadia_Subduction_Zone
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.
A century and a half elapsed before anyone had any inkling that the Pacific Northwest was not a quiet place but a place in a long period of quiet. It took another fifty years to uncover and interpret the region’s seismic history. Geology, as even geologists will tell you, is not normally the sexiest of disciplines; it hunkers down with earthly stuff while the glory accrues to the human and the cosmic—to genetics, neuroscience, physics. But, sooner or later, every field has its field day, and the discovery of the Cascadia subduction zone stands as one of the greatest scientific detective stories of our time.
https://archive.ph/5rCdk
During low tide one day in March 1986, paleogeologist Brian Atwater dug along Neah Bay with a nejiri gama, a small hand hoe. Under a top layer of sand, he uncovered a distinct plant—arrowgrass—that had grown in a layer of marsh soil. This finding was evidence that the ground had suddenly sunk under sea level, causing saltwater to kill the vegetation. The event had happened so quickly that the top layer of sand sealed away the air, thus preserving centuries-old plants.[6]
In 1987, Atwater mounted another expedition paddling up the Copalis River with Dr. David Yamaguchi, who was then studying the eruptions of Mount St. Helens.[6] The pair happened upon a section of "ghost forest", so-called due to the dead, gray stumps left standing after a sudden inundation of salt water had killed them hundreds of years ago.[4] Originally thought to have died slowly due to a gradual rise in sea level,[1] closer inspection yielded a different story: the land plummeted up to two meters during an earthquake.[4] Having initially tested spruce using tree-ring dating, they found that the stumps were too rotted to count all the outer rings. However, upon having examined those of the western red cedar and comparing them to the living specimens meters away from the banks, they were able to approximate their year of death. There were rings up until the year 1699, indicating that the incident had occurred shortly thereafter. Root samples confirmed their conclusion, narrowing the time frame to the winter of 1699 to 1700.[3][6]
As with the arrowgrass site, the banks of the Copalis River are lined with a layer of marsh followed by a layer of sand. Jody Bourgeois and her team went on to demonstrate that the sand cover had originated with a tsunami surge rather than a storm surge.[4]
In 1995, an international team led by Alan Nelson of the USGS further corroborated these findings with 85 new samples from the rest of the Pacific Northwest. All along British Columbia, Washington State, and Oregon, the coast had fallen due to a violent earthquake and been covered by sand from the subsequent tsunami.[6]
Everyone is doomed!!