[Spridgets] EARTHQUAKE!!!

[Jim Johnson]

True, Hal.  But car accidents take more lives than any of the things
mentioned
short of nuclear war.  Hey!!  Let's outlaw cars!!   ;-)

Blizzards, like everything else mentioned, are a calculated risk.  Kansas
looses
on average one life a year to blizzards.  (Direct result - not snow
shoveling heart attacks).
The current population of the state is about 2,818,000.  So your odds are
about 300,000 to one of dying in a blizzard.

Cheers!!
Jim

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Hal Faulkner <frog.aye at gmail.com> wrote:

> And let's not forget about blizzards.  Blizzards kill people!  Blizzards
> KILL people.
> I don't have any numbers but BLIZZARDS KILL PEOPLE!
> Hal
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Robert Evans <b-evans at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> 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
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