ologists interviewed by The New Yorker, the fault line, known as the Cascadia subduction zone, runs hundreds of miles between Northern California and ends around Vancouver, and is the area where the continental plates are doing something they are not supposed to do. Whereas a tectonic plate will normally slide underneath another plate—remember eighth-grade geology?—these are jammed up against each other in the Cascades, explaining why no one’s felt an earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, whereas, say, Japan gets a ton of them.
“There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring,” the piece's author, Kathryn Schulz, explains. “If, on that occasion, only the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone gives.”
The less-scary earthquake will be the equivalent of the 2011 earthquake that devastated Japan, but the more-scary earthquake, which is about a hundred or so years overdue and has historical precedent... well, it’s going to look something like this:
Due to the lack of earthquakes in the region, no one is prepared for a potential earthquake, or even thought it could possibly happen. (The fault line was only discovered a few decades years ago.) Without the proper precautions, conservative projections estimate that 13,000 people will die, with an additional 27,000 injured, and millions of people will be displaced if nothing changes. And that’s if it hits during the low point of the tourist season: if the earthquake happens during the summer, when thousands of visitors are at the beach and have no ability to get to high ground, “those numbers could be off by a horrifying margin.”
Oh, and the region will collapse in every other way: “Crippled by a lack of basic services, businesses will fail or move away. Many residents will flee as well. OSSPAC predicts a mass-displacement event and a long-term population downturn." It's slightly terrifying.
The seismologists interviewed predict there’s a 1 in 3 chance of the less-scary earthquake, and a 1 in 10 chance of the really-scary earthquake, happening in the next 50 years.
(And yes, there will be no Dwayne Johnson to save you.)
Read the full article here.“You know them all, my child, they need you and you need them. Teach, share, heal. You are my chosen one and I give you permission to do it. Go heal, go and smile for health thrives in joy. I am not a loved one, tell Celeste I am Michael, call me Michael and let them know that I am with you for them.
Jo, my loved one, do as I say, don’t be afraid, if they don’t believe it’s their choice, I am Michael and so it is.
Oooh wow. So many things make me happy. I might have to have the main list and a short list. We'll see how it goes. This isn't going to be in order, it's going to be whatever pops into my head first.
when you've put something off for ages but when you sit down and do it, it really isn't so bad.
Okay that wasn't so bad. It was a fun list to make. other things would include violins, kittens and food. But yano, thought I'd try something different instead.
ahha, I love getting mail too!
and when you think you don't have any left but you do, that's a good one that applies to everything!
also hair ribbons?!? like actual ribbon for you hair or is that a british term for hair ties haha?
old couples waking and holding hands always gets me a bit teary!
SAN?
Are we more sensitized to issues of race now that the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers may be forced to sell his basketball team — a transaction that could bring him an estimated $575 million for a franchise he bought in 1981 for a mere $12 million?
In the past, Sterling — who owns thousands of apartments in Southern California — was rightly criticized for refusing to rent units to African-Americans or Latinos. In a lawsuit, he was accused of saying that “black tenants smell and attract vermin.”
That’s disgusting. I think we’re all clear by now on who it is in this story that most resembles vermin.
But has the socioeconomic condition of the affected groups now been improved because of the possibility the new owners might include multimillionaires who are African-American or Latino? Boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya have separately expressed interest in joining forces with partners to buy the Clippers. So has NBA great Magic Johnson.
Is this the least bit empowering to the hardworking African-American and Latino citizens who are trying to scratch out a living for themselves and their families?
Attorney General Eric Holder has said that we’re a “nation of cowards” because Americans supposedly don’t talk enough about race.
I don’t know about that. I think we talk about it all the time and yet we still somehow manage to avoid the most important aspects of the discussion by choosing most often to focus on the tawdry and the trivial. Besides, if the Sterling fiasco is what talking more about race sounds like, maybe we’re better off keeping quiet.
This whole ugly “Guess Who You Shouldn’t Bring to Dinner” drama leaves one craving a long and hot shower. It’s hard to decide what element of it is more troubling.
Was it hearing someone who has made millions of dollars from being part of a league whose engine is African-American athletes admonish his girlfriend not to associate publicly with African-American athletes? Or was it the fact that so many of Sterling’s critics seemed to revel in the cheap progressivism that comes from piling on this sort of buffoon?
The real estate mogul reminds us there are some things money can’t buy and at the top of the list are class and character.
Stories like this always tend to bring out the best and worst in people.
In the latter category, you’ll find the NAACP. The Los Angeles chapter had already given Sterling one community leadership award, and the organization was poised to give him a lifetime achievement award before it quickly scuttled those plans when the controversy erupted. When asked at a news conference why the group was cozy with the Clippers owner, chapter President Leon Jenkins bluntly admitted it was about the money that Sterling has given the organization over the years.
“Mr. Sterling has given out a tremendous amount of scholarships, he has invited numerous African-American kids to summer camps and his donations are bigger than other sports franchises’,” Jenkins said. “That is something that shows that there is a consciousness of the plight of African-Americans in this country.”
While calling Sterling’s taped comments “devastating,” Jenkins was gracious enough to give the mogul a chance at redemption “after a sustained period of proof to the African-American community that those words don’t reflect his heart.”
A “sustained period of proof?” One has to wonder how many zeros this entails.
For an example of better behavior, take a look at the Clippers team and their inspirational coach, Doc Rivers. The Clippers players banded together and sent their owner a clear and powerful message by wearing their practice shirts inside out at a playoff game. The professional and dignified Rivers refused an invitation to sit down with Sterling for a face-saving meeting amid the controversy. These athletes managed to somehow make their views heard without joining in the frenzy. Neither the players nor their coach asked for the cards they were dealt, but they played them gracefully.
And in doing so, despite the misfortune of working for a loser, they wound up the big winners.
Ruben Navarrette is a syndicated columnist.Two new Virginia legal guidelines will create medical health insurance choices for 2 teams of companies which have felt shut out of extra reasonably priced protection.
One permits associations to arrange a advantages consortium that will assist small companies achieve the identical shopping for muscle that giant employers have for worker medical health insurance.
“It is about entry to well being care, one thing I’ve labored on my complete profession, and affordability,” mentioned state Sen. Monty MasonD-Williamsburgwho sponsored the measure.
The opposite new legislation permits the Virginia Affiliation of Realtors to rearrange for group insurance coverage for its members.
“It is a method to make medical health insurance extra reasonably priced,” mentioned Del. Keith HodgesR-Urbannawho sponsored the Realtors’ group insurance coverage invoice.
Each proposals have been battlegrounds for years, opposed out of concern that they’d take sufficient folks out of the Reasonably priced Care Act medical health insurance market to push up premiums for everybody else.
Eastern Health is facing a nearly 45 per cent vacancy rate in psychology positions after a “mass exodus” of specialists for private practice. Some psychologists say the Newfoundland and Labrador government and health authority were warned it would happen but failed to rectify long-standing issues.
CBC News spoke with several psychologists — both on the record and on background — who have left their jobs with the health authority for the private sector.
The demand for psychologists in the Eastern region has grown so much, they say, that even private practice clinics have few appointments to spare, adding it’s the patients who will bear the brunt of health officials’ inaction.
Eastern Health says that as of this month there are 25