{"id":157,"date":"2005-12-03T22:43:43","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T02:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/12\/03\/on-the-possible-benefits-of-staying-h"},"modified":"2005-12-03T22:43:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T02:43:43","slug":"on-the-possible-benefits-of-staying-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/12\/03\/on-the-possible-benefits-of-staying-home\/","title":{"rendered":"On the possible benefits of staying home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2279'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My neighbourhood association&#8217;s website links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.em.gov.bc.ca\/Mining\/Geolsurv\/Surficial\/hazards\/\">Victoria Earthquake Maps<\/a>, a handy compendium of information for the seismically worried.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.em.gov.bc.ca\/Mining\/Geolsurv\/Surficial\/hazards\/composite_legend.htm\">Composite Relative Earthquake Hazard<\/a> map is fascinating: I learned that my home sits on ground rated &#8220;low&#8221; on the hazard scale.  I&#8217;m in quadrant 47,500 and 536,300 &#8212; that little loopy street that looks like a loose knot amongst all those north-south and east-west running lines, that&#8217;s mine.  That relative safety-rating is of course worth not-much-at-all if a real disaster strikes: all of our drinking water comes from a single pipe laid underwater in the Upper Harbour to the west of downtown: in case of an earthquake, it&#8217;s bound to fail, not least for lying under a bridge almost guaranteed to collapse on top of it.  The &#8220;balkanised&#8221; state of regional municipal politics will make living in a post-earthquake disaster environment additionally &#8230;fascinating.  One hopes it never happens.  <i>Apres mois, le deluge&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbourhood association&#8217;s website links to Victoria Earthquake Maps, a handy compendium of information for the seismically worried. The Composite Relative Earthquake Hazard map is fascinating: I learned that my home sits on ground rated &#8220;low&#8221; on the hazard scale. I&#8217;m in quadrant 47,500 and 536,300 &#8212; that little loopy street that looks like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}