At 07:48 AM 8/25/97 -0500, ROBERT MORRISON wrote:

Probably mainly because New York is not prepared for a major 

earthquake as

they *just* *don't* *happen* on the US East Coast  (within living 

memory,

anyway)

Last I checked, there weren't any major (or minor for that matter) 
fault lines running through the New York area. So, earthquakes 
shouldn't occur there. (Of course, my geography skills aren't the 
sharpest in the world, so if I'm wrong, someone please call me on it.)

I would be very surprised to hear there were no fault lines in a coastal
area, especially New York, because I know they *do* have earthquakes on the
US East Coast from time to time (I've just never heard of any major ones
having happened there within living memory). I lived in the Philadelphia
area for 13 years and we had maybe 2 in all that time that were reported in
the media -- Richter ~3-4 or so


Jeanne Hedge
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