There was another after shock late last night, around 11:21. This time the quake registered 3.1 on the Richter Scale. Are we turning in to California? We have summer in March and earthquakes. The world is turning upside down. I am waiting for hordes of grasshoppers and for it to rain frogs.
Have you looked at buying earthquake insurance? I have. It isn’t what I had imagined. I expected if an earthquake hit my house, the damage would be covered and the deductible would be what it is for any other disaster, frogs, hail, wind, etc. Such is not the case. There is a huge deductible, usually in the thousands. It also isn’t cheap. I guess if your house falls down on you then its worth it but then you have to think of the probability. If this aftershock stuff keeps up though, I might have to change my mind. I had said no.
Does anyone have any information or experience with earthquake insurance? Do you think that it is worth it? The Haiti earthquake wasn’t in a predictable area either was it?
I felt it but wasn’t sure that is what it was. I had dozed off, not deep sleep but it woke me up. I wondered.
On a related note, from the WaPo:
Filmmaker and ocean enthusiast James Cameron became the first solo explorer to reach the deepest point of the ocean — almost seven miles down — when his custom-built one-man submarine touched down in the western Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench at 7:52 a.m. local time Monday (5:52 p.m. Eastern time Sunday), according to a statement from the National Geographic Society
Here’s the USGS website with information on earthquakes:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/
I think it’s really interesting.
Virginia is not on a fault line so I’m not worried about a “big one” occurring here. I’d rather spend the money on a nice vacation than earthquake insurance. Haiti is near a fault line and at much greater risk of a significant earthquake than is Virginia. The USGS website has lots of detailed information on which areas are and are not at risk.
We’ll all be dead after December 21 anyway from earthquakes, pole shifts, solar radiation, and floods, among other things, according to the Mayans, so why worry? 🙂
For the record, December 22 is a Saturday, and I plan to watch Roland Emmerich’s “2012” movie while drinking some nice Bourbon that day, and celebrate that his forecasting ability is about as accurate as Al Gore’s. Recall that Gore poached some of Emmerich’s special effects from the movie he made just prior to “2012,” “The Day After Tomorrow” for his “Inconvenient Hoaxes” err, sorry, “Inconvenient Truth” movie.
Al Gore will get you in the end. However, that had to be the most boring movie ever.
What I find scary is something as potentially fatal as climate change has been politicized. NTK, did you ever wonder what would happen if you were wrong?
At what point will it be too late? Do you deny polar bears are becoming extinct?
@Moon-howler
Moon, I deny absolutely that polar bears are becoming extinct. There are more of them now than there were fifty years ago. That’s another myth perpetuated by the Al Gores of the world.
Also, average global temperatures this year are about average. Our warm winter was offset by much colder, snowier weather elsewhere. This is our reward for snowmeggedon in 2010, but our turn will come again, as it has for the northwest and Europe this winter.
I admit that I don’t know the future and might be wrong. However, I’m convinced that I’m not. Anthropomorphic climate change is like a religion for some. Did anyone ever consider what happens to us if we do what they advocate and they are wrong? So far, their dire predictions have all proven false.
Maybe we can have a Moonhowlings “2012” viewing and pizza party sometime after December 21. I admit to enjoying Emmerich’s movies even if they are silly. However, his “The Patriot” was very good, inspiring, and not silly at all.
I don’t like my science politicized. Look what happened to poor Galileo.
I don’t see how man can populate the earth and not affect it in some way. Even volcanoes can cause havoc with the atmosphere.
I just read something yesterday about polar bears and extinction. Where are they all if there are more?
It isn’t a religion for me. It’s just logic for me.