{"id":2938,"date":"2010-06-23T21:13:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T04:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2010-06-27T00:55:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T07:55:25","slug":"simple-geography-crumpled-folds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/23\/simple-geography-crumpled-folds\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple geography, crumpled folds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I go, worrying about how we&#8217;d fare in a real <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cascadia_subduction_zone\">West Coast earthquake<\/a>, and then a couple of days after I leave the &#8220;back East&#8221; region, what does the Northeast do? They go and have a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?pz=1&amp;cf=all&amp;cf=all&amp;ncl=d9GfdSZ8d5plQKMPg7xCD9ANNnEHM\">headline-making<\/a> quake.<\/p>\n<p>Oh the irony&#8230; The strongest quake I&#8217;ve ever felt was in my apartment in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brookline_Village_Commercial_District\">Brookline<\/a> &#8211; a third-floor walk-up &#8211; where the forced hot-water radiators gyrated and my free-standing kitchen shelves almost dumped their load on the floor. The epicenter of that quake was somewhere near <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montreal\">Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_Central_Canada_earthquake\">today<\/a>&#8216;s 5.0 quake near Ottawa, but centered again in Quebec (in nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Val-des-Bois,_Quebec\">Val-de-Bois<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_O%27Keeffe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 6px solid white\" title=\"Canna folds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnston.k12.ia.us\/technologyservices\/instructionaltechnology\/ITArt\/Images\/redcanna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a>As before, the Quebec-epicentered quake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2010\/06\/canadian_earthq.html\">makes news as far as Boston<\/a>, where it generated 911 calls as buildings wobbled: &#8220;At least two buildings in the Boston area, more than 300 miles from the epicenter, were evacuated due to concerns about the shaking.&#8221; At the end of this article there&#8217;s a <em>helpful<\/em> &lt;sic&gt; reference to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2006\/04\/16\/new_england_not_immune_to_strong_temblors\/\">2006 article<\/a> about earthquakes in the Northeast. Ack.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it seems to me that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/827761--earthquakes-in-ontario-rare-but-not-unexpected\">Toronto Star has the best line about the event<\/a> &#8211; one that characterizes something of the mental geography as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The simple geology of eastern Canada helped transmit the earthquake\u2019s vibrations many kilometres from the epicentre, unlike the crumpled, mountainous geology of British Columbia. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/827761--earthquakes-in-ontario-rare-but-not-unexpected\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simple geography on the one hand, crumpled geology on the other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Straight ahead vs folded in on itself? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I go, worrying about how we&#8217;d fare in a real West Coast earthquake, and then a couple of days after I leave the &#8220;back East&#8221; region, what does the Northeast do? They go and have a headline-making quake. Oh the irony&#8230; The strongest quake I&#8217;ve ever felt was in my apartment in Brookline &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242],"tags":[412,7207,442],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","tag-boston","tag-earthquake","tag-northeast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","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=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}