hipeter924
Not a zombie yet
Actually most (if not all) of the cities were founded before we knew much about plate tectonics (even though the idea was around for a while the scientific community never took it seriously till the late 20th century), it's a bit of a little too late now. It's not like once you have built a place (and in this case an entire country) you can just pack up all the buildings and leave, in any case large Earthquakes are rare and it is likely Christchurch won't have another large Earthquake for a century or more as a result of the two recent ones.actually, the fault line runs about 100 miles away from Christchurchalso the type of soil had an effect
they were saying there was a lot of liquefaction going on
and how could they NOT know it was either on or near a fault line?
it was right on the edge of the tectonic plates?
They knew...just like people know all over the earth that they live in quake zones.
Look at the map below and you'll see how impossible it is for mankind to avoid such dnager
If mankind didn't build on or near tectonic plates mankind couldn't live in much of Asia, the Mediterranian, or the West Coast of North America.
A billion (probably more) people would have to move thousands of miles to move out of those active quakes zones.
on the other side of the Island
but my point was not about building near fault lines so much as not building PROPERLY in a fault zone
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