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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