I am watching a 20 year old video on San Francisco and earthquakes.

sewblue@sfba.social

The amount of infastructure and effort California spends on earthquake safety is impressive.

Watching the "look how vulnerable we are!" segments and it's been topic after topic that has been addressed. The old Bay Bridge is gone, apartment buildings have been retrofitted. Vulnerable gas lines gone.

There are other things that worry me as an engineer in this space, but it is so nice see just how much we've accomplished in 20 years.

Oh, and fuck that British guy. He's taking the lack of major earthquakes in Europe as a sign of superiority. As if London never burned or bombed. Lisbon was never hit by a tsunamis, Naples isn't facing the risk of being another Pompeii. Cities get built for economic reasons, not disaster avoidance. I read his book and for someone so fascinated with earthquakes he really doesn't understand them.

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