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To: Roebear who wrote (93234)	8/8/2001 9:21:03 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Many buildings in Charleston SC have reinforcing rods bolted through them for earthquake protection (the old structures). I don't recall if there is this kind of thing in Savannah. Yes, there are quivers from time to time all up and down the Appalachians, but you never hear of any damage. Nevertheless, in keeping with my bearish outlook on things I carried earthquake insurance until they put a paragraph in the policy disallowing coverage for external masonry. That made it useless, since the house has a stone exterior, so I dropped it. But I think tens of thousands of people could be killed in St. Louis. This summer I was in a downtown hotel in Seattle, and chunks of cement were missing from the inside corner of the room. If you really want to talk geological catastrophe, you should read the discussion of the possibilities of Yellowstone, which might just be an enormous resurgent caldera. if it blew, it could be like a hundred Mt. St. Helens at once and effectively eliminate 25% of the US as a liveable area for some time.