will_a113@lemmy.ml to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoMagnitude 4.8 Earthquake Strikes New York Metro Area and East Coastwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1297file-text
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minus-squareTheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up40·8 months agoPeople who live near active fault lines: “don’t even talk to me unless it’s a 6.0+”
minus-squareGhostalmedia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·8 months agoRemember, a lot of the structures in the tristate area were not designed with quakes in mind. A 4 or 5 might feel a lot more uncomfortable if you’re standing in an unreinforced masonry building that could topple if you fart too hard.
minus-squareTheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·7 months agoI 100% agree. I was more joking that people who live near fault lines are elitist when it comes to the size of earthquakes… Humans are weirdly competitive
minus-squareGhostalmedia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-27 months ago100%. It’s the same when CA gets a ton of rain or when Texas gets a bunch of ice. The infrastructure wasn’t built for it. Although it was funny as fuck to see the NY governor do a press conference for a 4.x earthquake a state away.
People who live near active fault lines: “don’t even talk to me unless it’s a 6.0+”
Remember, a lot of the structures in the tristate area were not designed with quakes in mind. A 4 or 5 might feel a lot more uncomfortable if you’re standing in an unreinforced masonry building that could topple if you fart too hard.
I 100% agree. I was more joking that people who live near fault lines are elitist when it comes to the size of earthquakes…
Humans are weirdly competitive
100%. It’s the same when CA gets a ton of rain or when Texas gets a bunch of ice. The infrastructure wasn’t built for it.
Although it was funny as fuck to see the NY governor do a press conference for a 4.x earthquake a state away.