Fuck that. They should be welcome to reapply, but prior employment and subsequent termination for refusing to comply in a public health emergency should absolutely not give you priority

Just continue with the boring, please.

Not my fault if policymakers are publishing stupid laws.

This might be the most boring post in the history of Reddit.

I can’t be the only one sitting here thinking this can’t be real. There’s no vantage point where this shot would happen right?!

Translation: Let's let dangerous disease-spreaders spread their diseases without encumbrance for maximum effect!

It’s…a….VOLCANO

Well I was in it , and was actually at my college library at the time and honestly it wasn’t that bad . I mean it went for a bit and it was aggressive shaking but none of the book shelves tipped over or I don’t even remember books falling from the shelves .

Very cool shot.

Thanks. It's a short story. I pretty much just cropped it.

I suuuuuuuck at editing. These were pretty good straight out of camera, though. I shoot RAW+JPG, here's some of the SOOC JPGs.

https://i.imgur.com/8NDmRdc.jpg

It was a good day. This is 5934, cropped some. The light trails are fun. 5930 is a very good one, especially when cropped on the mountain.

Canon RP, 24-105 f/4L at f/4, 1/3 sec, ISO 400

golden gate DOOP

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Earthquake scale is not a linear scale, so a 6.8-7.5 jump is not as small as it seems. It’s not a 10% increase in strength, it’s orders or magnitude stronger

We certainly had some damage: a major roadway along Capitol Lake collapsed, some large masonry blocks fell off the corner of an old bank building, and the Capitol dome was set rolling like a top on its base (at the time, it was held in place by gravity alone, but it’s since been pinned to the building)!

Sounds like a happy accident!

On a real note, I think we need more engineers prioritizing overbuilding (not overcomplicating) rather than being so short-sighted. Would definitely pay dividends in the long-run in terms of maintenance and disaster resistance.

No disagreement on a differently located quake, just want to make sure we're not telling folks all the glacial till this region is built on is cushioning us. It didn't make the Nisqually less intense, the distance did. Someone would've felt the Nisqually more anywhere in the Puget Sound region that's on top of glacial till more than riding it out on bedrock, in the few places that exists.

I went on a city tour of Olympia (my hometown and the urban area closest to the epicenter), and the tour guide explained that the architect who designed a lot of the buildings in Olympia’s downtown core didn’t really know what he was doing and over-built everything, which has probably helped protect downtown against several quakes over the decades.

For sure, there WAS liquefaction, but it was very limited and low impact and almost entirely in the industrial areas south of downtown where it is mostly just garbage till soil on top of old tidal flats.

given the widescale "terraforming" the settlers did to the original Seattle hills to level out the city, it (liquefaction) was extremely limited in location and impact. we will not be so lucky with a closer and shallower quake.

For how long the Earth has existed it's amazing how much our understanding has grown in just 70 years. Tectonic plates are a relatively recent discovery, thanks to ocean exploration.

But important to note there was liquefaction in SODO. It's a bit amusing to read this and think someone was surprised to find evidence of liquefaction in an area like SODO that is loose fill. It's a given, today. https://www.washington.edu/news/2001/04/17/damaged-chimneys-and-unexpected-liquefaction-from-nisqually-temblor-yield-earthquake-insights-uw-scientists-say/

Wouldn’t surprise me, but there’s also the fact that the Viaduct was a lot more obvious and there was more arguing about it.

Nobody questioned the repairs for the sea wall.

This is a very, very good shot. What’s the post-processing story?

we were far enough away, and across several fault areas, that the soils did dampen the shock wave somewhat in places by the time it got here.

that said, a strong quake near to Seattle (e.g., one on the Seattle fault) will likely trigger liquefaction locally in places due to strength AND proximity. that was not an issue with the nisqually quake. by the time the waves got here we got lots of shaking and damage to old infrastructure, but the skyscrapers handled it like they were designed, and for the most part we mostly suffered cosmetic damage and not a HUGE amount of infrastructure damage.

At least it's not gum

Beyond building differences what is important to understand is that the way of measuring earthquakes is a logarithmic scale. The difference between 6.8 and 7.5 is significant, logarithmically.

Also Richter isn't used anymore, really, moment magnitude is the scale typically used https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/moment-magnitude-richter-scale-what-are-different-magnitude-scales-and-why-are-there-so-many