Tag: Earthquakes

Stupidity In America

I have not had much to say of the recent earthquake in Haiti…..because what can we say?…As a survivor of Katrina I feel for the suffering that the Haitian people are going through and I wish them well and their families stay intact……

You have heard all the BS on the airwaves…..the Right wingnuts as well as some on the Left…all are idiots…but there are some that are bigger morons than others…..especially if they are using it for political or financial gain…and then there are the biggest IDIOTS like 700 Club’s Par Robertson:

“And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French, you know, Napoleon the Third and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’ True story. And so the devil said, ‘O.K., it’s a deal.’

“It was bad enough that he said the successful slave revolt came during the reign of “Napoleon III, or whatever” (the Haitian Revolution led by Francois-Dominique Toussaint L’ouverture was in fact completed in 1804 when Napoleon Bonaparte ruled France, 44 years before his nephew Napoleon III came to power). But here in Haiti’s former colonial master, talk about the Robertson “theory” clouds with myth an early if awkward chapter in self-determination: the Haitian slaves are considered the first to collectively and successfully overthrow their colonial masters. In this case, the French.  (As reported in the Christian Science Monitor)

I want on the record as saying that I think this yo-yo is a screaming moron……and if this is God’s doing…that rules out the Merciful God theory altogether……

If this feeble old man does not realize how ignorant he appears then there is a possibility that he needs to be tested for Alzheimer’s…….

New York Earthquake Terror

No this is not a SciFi Channel movie of the week.

— An analysis of recent earthquake activity around New York City has found that many small faults that were believed to be inactive could contribute to a major, disastrous earthquake.

The study also finds that a line of seismic activity comes within two miles of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, about 25 miles north of New York City. Another fault line near the plant was already known, so the findings suggest Indian Point is at an intersection of faults.

The study’s authors, who work at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Observatory, acknowledge that the biggest earthquakes — in the 6 or 7 magnitude range — are rare in the New York City region. They say a quake of magnitude 7 probably comes about every 3,400 years.

The study, published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, analyzed 383 known earthquakes over the past 330 years in or near New York City. The biggest were three that reached magnitude 5 in 1737, 1783 and 1884.

Data on earthquakes since the early 1970s, when Lamont deployed dozens of new detectors, enabled the authors to see patterns from smaller quakes, including the magnitude 4.1 quake that was centered on Ardsley, in Westchester County, in 1985.

The report inferred from the data that there is a seismic zone, previously undetected, running west from the southwest tip of Connecticut and intersecting with the large, well-known Ramapo fault near Indian Point.