[Spridgets] EARTHQUAKE!!!

[Robert Evans]

Jim Johnson wrote:  "You will be in a California earthquake at least once a
year even if you move around."

Now, Jim, we have been having this argument for several years, now.  Yes, I
know that as a Weather Fabricator you are biased.  But let's get some facts
on the table.  These come from the U.S. Geological Survey and your old
outfit, NOAA.

1   If you live in California, you will be in thousands of quakes a year.
But, they are so insignificant you do not even feel them.
2.  The estimates that there are millions of earthquakes throughout America
each year.  Again, you folks in Virginia, Florida and the rest of the
country simply do not feel them.
3.  There have been far more fatalities from tornados than from earthquakes
since they began keeping records.
4.  Alaska skews the earthquake records for all of the U.S., having the top
10 earthquakes in magnitude, and 13 of the top 20 (Hawaii, Missouri and
California accounting for the rest.
5.  Only 2 people have died in earthquakes since 2000, according to the
USGS, while the National Weather Service claims there have been 3. In the
same period of time, there have been 1,150 deaths in tornados.
6.  Since 1955 (a cut-off year used, for whatever reason, by the NWS in
separating data), 4,721 people have met death in tornados, but only 379 in
earthquakes.

If you are interested in annual comparisons:

Year      T        E
1955    129      1
1956      83	
1957    193      1
1958      67	
1959      58    28
1960	    46	
1961	    52	
1962	    30	
1963      31	
1964      73   128
1965    301      7
1966      98	
1967    114	
1968    131	
1969      66      1
1970      73	
1971    159    65
1972      27	
1973      89	
1974    366	
1975      60    2
1976      44	
1977      43	
1978      53	
1979      84	
1980      28	
1981      24	
1982      64	
1983      34      2
1984    122	
1985      94	
1986      15	
1987      59      9
1988      32	
1989      50    64
1990      53	
1991      39      2
1992      39      3
1993      33      2
1994      69    60
1995      30      1
1996	    25	
1997      67	
1998    130	
1999      94	
2000      40	
2001      40	
2002      55	
2003      54      3
2004      35	
2005      38	
2006      67	
2007      81	
2008    125	
2009      21	
2010      45
2011    549	

So go West young man, to California where you will be safe!

Buster Evans