Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: "Steven A. Collins" <scollins@**.UML.EDU>
Subject: Earthquake of 2008 was (Re: Crash of 2029)
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 12:47:30 -0400
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig J Wilhelm Jr wrote:

->George Metz wrote:
->> > Or that in 8 years a large earthquake will destroy Manhattan killing
->> > 200,000 people?
->>
->> Well, it IS close to the fault line that runs through New England, and that
->> one hasn't gone off since the mid to late 1700's.
->
-> NYC isn't only close to the faults, the whole city is shot through with
->them. Two run right down the East river and the Hudson. One I know of
->runs down Canal Street in SoHo. Most people don't realise that the big
->buildings in Up-town and Down-town Manhattan are sitting on top of two
->mountains...
->
->> It's a possibility. Not a
->> huge one, but more likely than you might think.
->
-> Yeah, I know. I just hope it's not a big one, like magnitude 6+.
->Anything bigger than that will knock buildings down as far south as
->Virginia, since most of the Eastern seaboard is just one big dome of
->granite.
-> Magnitude 5-6 quakes will kill alot more than 200,000 people. 2/3rds of
->Manhattan, and a big chunck of Brooklyn are built on dirt and rubble
->created when our city planners, in thier infinite wisdom, decided to
->level out the city to make it nice and flat to build upon. All that junk
->will liquify and 2,000,000 people and thousands of buildings will slide
->into the rivers and wash out into the Atlantic.
->
I know all of this as the same fault that runs under NY runs under my
hometown of Lowell Ma. which is about 30 miles from Boston. That is
one thing I was very disappointed about with the coverage of Boston in
Target:UCAS. The Earthquake apparently didn't do any damage here. This
is unlikely as most of Boston is built on a filled in saltmarsh.
Anything beyond about 4.5 on the richter scale is likely to make
significant parts of the city sink into the bay. Which parts of the
city would those be? Try the Financial District and the Back Bay. The
two most economically important parts of the city. The Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston goes bye bye.
Message no. 2
From: George Metz <W0lfstar@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Earthquake of 2008 was (Re: Crash of 2029)
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:40:56 -0400
In a message dated 97-08-24 12:47:54 EDT, you write:

> I know all of this as the same fault that runs under NY runs under my
> hometown of Lowell Ma. which is about 30 miles from Boston. That is
> one thing I was very disappointed about with the coverage of Boston in
> Target:UCAS. The Earthquake apparently didn't do any damage here. This
> is unlikely as most of Boston is built on a filled in saltmarsh.
> Anything beyond about 4.5 on the richter scale is likely to make
> significant parts of the city sink into the bay. Which parts of the
> city would those be? Try the Financial District and the Back Bay. The
> two most economically important parts of the city. The Federal Reserve
> Bank of Boston goes bye bye.

Not necessarily. Just because the epicenter's on the fault line, doesn't
mean that the entire fault shifts. You would've gotten some collateral damage
in Boston, New Haven, CT(10 miles south of me) would have really been hurt,
but New York could be brought down without a major 'quake, simply because
they don't have the anti-'quake construction that the west coast has.

Wolfstar

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Earthquake of 2008 was (Re: Crash of 2029), you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!