Midwest Earthquake Hazard Downplayed

swellconvivialguy writes "Next year marks the bicentennial of the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes, with earthquake drills and disaster tourism events planned across the Midwest, including the Great Central US ShakeOut. But despite the fact that Earthquake Hazard Maps equate the New Madrid seismic zone with California, geologist Seth Stein says new science (especially GPS data) tells us that the hazard has been significantly overestimated, and that we should not spend billions on earthquake preparations in the Midwest."

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Re:congratulations

[gman003]

We could try changing the acronyms. I propose "I'm Not A Trained Lawyer" (and variants for other professions). INATL looks more like an abbreviation for "International" than anything dirty.

Re:congratulations

[somersault]

I think the problem here is yours rather than his. I sometimes find the IANAL acronym amusing, but I don't think I noticed immediately the word ANAL in it, and even after I did I just found it amusing.

There was a year or two in my life where I had some serious OCD going on, apparently aggravated as a side effect of coming off of anti-depressants (though once I read about OCD I could see I've had it all my life, it does explain a lot of stuff I have thought/done), and it made many things disturbing, but you just have to learn to not think of them as a big deal and eventually your brain does stop making a big deal of everything, and you can get back to being "normal". So what if a guy is unintentionally saying he likes to partake of anal sex? Just laugh and get on with your life :)