Earthquake Quotes
On survival instinct and living with shaky ground
These earthquake quotes cover practical survival instinct, the raw force of nature, and how cities like San Francisco live with Buildings on shifting fault lines.
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When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
Anticipating Quotes
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
Because Quotes
In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.
Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.
Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
Buildings Quotes
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One recalls the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a moment of stark contrast, a reminder of how unevenly disaster and comfort can sit side by side, almost by Chance.
