[Spridgets] EARTHQUAKE!!!

[Robert Duquette]

Kansas gets blizzards??  Are you talking about the Dairy Queen type of blizzard?

Mother Nature can be vengeful!

Robert

> 
> 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
>>> ___________________