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I'm upset she's attacking AOC, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar, but I think she's right to not attack a Democrat in an R+3 district (Gottheimer) since she knows it's hard to follow the party line and get reelected reliably in those districts.
Very unlikely within our lifetimes, but after hundreds of years, especially if we keep emitting CO₂, I think it's possible. I don't remember details, though.
Depends what you mean by "entire", I guess?
But also look at other places: nearly all coastal cities, but also London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Beijing, Wuhan, Baghdad, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston, Bangladesh, Florida, Louisiana, Netherlands, Denmark, ...
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Have a look around flood.firetree.net/ set to +60m sea level rise (roughly the "all ice caps melt" scenario) and see what's flooded...
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By pure population share, if you assume the bay area needs 1.5 million new housing units (a larger-than-by-population share of California's 3.5 million need), RWC would need to build 17,000 units. But given its more job-friendly and transit-friendly location, should build more.
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Redwood City is probably producing 20%-25% of what's needed to get us out of the shortage (2789 units in 5 years), rather than the usual 2% or 5% or 10%. So it's still not an example of success.
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Also a bunch of bad policies at the state level (e.g. Prop 13, CEQA... not sure how much discretionary approvals are dictated by the state)
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I think there was a big stack near Les Halles in Paris (on the side near Saint Eustache?) on one of my recent visits. Probably not most recent, though, so maybe 2016?
I think nitter.vloup.ch/asmallteapot/sta… is the main reason, though.
Not really; we got incredibly lucky because it was in the middle of nowhere. If this hit as close to the Bay Area as Loma Prieta or to Los Angeles at Northridge, many people would have died.
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Some good MMI shake maps:
Here are the MMI shake intensities for the M7.1 Ridgecrest and the M7.1 Anchorage earthquakes. Both have Mercalli (MMI) level V shaking for about 20,000 square miles. However, the shallower depth of the Ridgequest quake means the max intensity was IX (vs VIII for Anchorage).
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Somewhere in there there's also a map with estimated MMI values... but the site isn't really working now. (I don't even see where you see the IX.)
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More curious about the max MMI, given
The Richter scale is a (logarithmic) measure of energy released, so says as much about how much area was affected and for how long as about how strong it was at any one place & time. The Modified Mercalli scale is a better measure of how bad a quake is at a particular point.
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Though nitter.vloup.ch/NewEarthquake/st… reports the opposite revision.
Revised (6.9 -> 7.1): 7.1 earthquake, 17km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA. 2019-07-05 19:19:52 at epicenter (24m ago, depth -0.9km). earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua…
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The Richter scale is a (logarithmic) measure of energy released, so says as much about how much area was affected and for how long as about how strong it was at any one place & time. The Modified Mercalli scale is a better measure of how bad a quake is at a particular point.
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The Richter scale is a (logarithmic) measure of energy released, so says as much about how much area was affected as about how strong it was at any one place. The Modified Mercalli scale is a better measure of how bad a quake is at a particular point.
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I have an exit row seat on a 10 hour flight on a Boeing 767 to offer you...
(The window exits on the 767 are good heat conductors, so starting after about 4 hours at altitude, the exit window housing is just a massive heat sink. I rarely use blankets on airplanes, but...)
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