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A Pipeline, An Earthquake, No Problem

Posted by Hemos on from the building-it-to-last dept.

polarfleece writes "November 3 is the first anniversary of the Denali Fault Earthquake that rocked Interior Alaska. America's greatest engineering marvel, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline just happens to cross the Denali Fault and, as described in Dan Joling's AP story "Alyeska engineers anticipated the effects of a bruising quake" the line came through just fine."

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  1. Drill ANWR Now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let's get jumping. We need the oil.The technology for safe and sane extraction is proven. A pipeline, an earthquake -- No problem! Glad to see this stuff works the way it should.