Originally Posted by
gnaget
Sorry, over the last 10 years I have started to lump the US together with Haiti.
Excellent! I am still chuckling about that one
Originally Posted by
gnaget
But, seriously, if you had a Richter 7-8 in DC or NY then I would get the hell out of the building because it is likely to collapse. But I think that is geologically impossible. Structures in the eastern US are not constructed with earthquakes in mind, especially shoddy private homes.
Yes the buildings in the US are shockingly poorly constructed and the management is worse. The thing that struck me about the earthquake in Virginia and the way buildings responded was by having all elevators return to the ground floor and stay there. Utterly beyond belief.