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To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (20412)	4/4/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

Most new construction is built with quakes in mind. The bridges in Southern Illinois are now being built to withstand a quake of some magnitude. The Marina District looked horrible on TV. That made me get an earthquake rider on my homeowners policy.

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (20412)	4/4/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

Oh they're very aware of the quakes. Those houses on hillsides are now being built with breakaway foundations and these ski sorta things - so as to destroy the least amount of bayside ecology on their way into the drink. Priorities.

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (20412)	4/4/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

A look at a map of what areas of the bay are landfill is like a treasure map of education. It will scare you to higher ground. Correlate with the areas of quakewave destruction (not fire). The waves are, as you apparently know, amplified in the landfill. Now take into account that the new houses are built tough. So what. Completely, so what. It's like lying to the people who buy them that they are safe. The house may hold together. It's The District you need to be terrified of. What the quake is going to do to everything around you. Importantly, what's under you. Gas lines, water, electricity, drainage, sewerage. What's it going to do to the ability to react to that, clean it up, re-service it. Traffic and services and fire trucks and water and gas will be circulating freely on the high ground. Up there, houses that are strangely unresistant to quake will survive the lesser wave effects, or be relatively immaterial in an area less affected. Down on the flats, they'll be blading your ashes to build new stout houses, and will probably do so with a few real ideas for how to disrupt the Choke that killed you. But it's like the expense and forethought of building a spaceship - it's probably impossible to build a city as Flat Land Earthquake Spaceship. Houseboats are not a bad idea. Look at Japanese quakes. Picture Kobe. Look at disruption of the city, not houses. Who gives a crap about the house. For Pete's sake! Hello people!! The Marina quake was a note, from the gods. Want the whole book when you didn't read last night's assigned pages? Your friends need you to save them. Tell them you have friends on the net who say they are doomed. Hee hee. Ow. Hurt my stitches.