Man, why are the beautiful places of this world so much at constant risk :(
7.1 Earthquake in Japan
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Where I live in the US (near Seattle), there's no piped natural gas, most detatched houses have a 250-500 gallon propane tank. Seattle has piped gas, but my county never had the density to justify the expense to install distribution piping and now its disfavored. My house has a second tank for a backup generator. We use the main tank for our stove/range, water heater, clothes dryer, and a decorative fireplace that's…
Were you there for the earthquake in 2001? I was. I still find it surprising there hasn't been another large quake in Seattle since then. Pretty fortunate.
No, I moved in 2018; long enough to complain about all the people moving here even though I did the same thing ;) I did get to experience the viaduct, and did the tunnel / viaduct ride before the grand opening of the 99 tunnel and the demolishing of the viaduct; so I've got some street cred?
I think the area got off pretty light from the 2001 quake and the pace of retrofits has been too slow, but has had fortunate timing so I think things won't be too bad for the next quake, depending on exactly where it hits.
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#213- at least 50 hospitalized due to various injuries[1] - 9 missing, 12 house collapses, 4 trappings, 7 fires so far[1] - multiple highway road bridges snapped, roads damaged[2] - AEON brand shopping mall exploded following evacuation, cause unknown[3] - chimney collapsed at Nippon Seishi paper factory[4] - TSMC, Sony, Fujifilm chips, imagers, materials plants evacuated[4] - epicenter reported as 32.6N 130.7E[5], rough…
> TSMC, Sony, Fujifilm chips, imagers, materials plants evacuated This makes me think, is it wise to build these places in regions with known earthquake trends. Almost no earthquakes in Korea and Samsung fabs are also located in the most safe area within Korea.
It's a major reason why Arizona was selected for a US site.
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“People used to cooking with gas, cook better with gas” Induction offers the benefits of not emitting noxious fumes, the dangers of transporting gas over long distances in bulk, the fire hazards inside the home, and dependency on single source energy. Electricity, via induction cooktops, is often faster, more energy efficient, safer for everyone, and doesn’t depend on whatever regime or state wants to play games with…
> Induction offers the benefits of not emitting noxious fumes, I don’t understanding this criticism. Who in their right mind ie cooking inside at all without an externally ventilated exhaust fan? The moisture control issue leading to mould growth will destroy your health faster than hoofing nat gas combustion products. I believe the nat gas combustion product health risks for home and commercial cooking are wildly ov…
"Who in their right mind ie cooking inside at all without an externally ventilated exhaust fan?"
Anyone in an older gas-served apartment building has the potential to not have direct external ventilation.
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Induction is the trick. It's nearly as fast as gas.
Induction is faster than gas. I had an issue when I first got induction where I'd warp my pans because I turned the stove up to max and the metal would get so hot so fast the bottom of the pan would bend. Oops. Lesson learned.
Yup. I did the exact same thing, except I split a cast iron pan, and shattered the induction cooktop.
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#217This was my first real earthquake since moving to Kyushu. After it stopped I looked it up, and the first place to post the epicenter and shindo was NERV's twitter...which is named after the org from the anime and has an anime screenshot as its banner ( https://x.com/EN_NERV ). Apparently it's a real disaster information service, though. It's been mentioned before but maybe interesting to some ( https://news.ycombinat…
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#218Man, why are the beautiful places of this world so much at constant risk :(
There's this burning Ring of Fire....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire>
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It's Japan though. They don't have non-resistant buildings.
Like half of the buildings are non-resistant since they are old and made of wood. IIRC only buildings built after 1991 are guaranteed to be earthquake resistant.
> and made of wood
Which works great in earthquakes in my experience in Christchurch. Most homes in New Zealand are made of wood.
Christchurch had a 7.1 that was 40km away, that caused some damage (certainly the wooden house I was living in at the time was fine).
Christchurch then had a 6.2 which damaged many concrete and brick buildings because the epicentre was shallow and within the city (6.2 sounds small but if it is close then that really matters). Many house foundations were completely stuffed, but the wooden houses above were often relatively unscathed. I bought a damaged house cheaply with a broken ring foundation: "as-is" or uninsured or insurance payout are the keywords.
Christchurch had maybe 180000 homes, of which about 10,000 were ultimately demolished. But they mostly weren't demolished because the wooden home itself had failed. The majority of demolished homes were in red-zones beside the river or estuary, which the houses could have been repaired but the ground was not good and also future flood risk was the problem. The government, the city, and insurers worked together to remove a lot of homes that had other risks.
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#220Kumamoto is barely finished rebuilding from the last quake, you can still see cracks in structures as you drive down the road. This is really horrible; not to mention the city is already beginning to depopulate as the youth move north to Fukuoka.
I wouldn't let this get in the way of going there though. Kumamoto is a very nice prefecture to see. They will rebuild (again) and it'll continue to be a great place.
No I mean of course, I thought Kumamoto was very nice and I especially enjoyed visiting Mt Aso, I was lucky enough to see into the crater and hike around the peaks