Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town

[T_R_Oglodyte]

TUGgers who've been around awhile know that I"m fascinated by the geology of western North America.

Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town

An emerging fault system along the Nevada border is shaking up the tech industry’s latest frontier—and only a small group of scientists is paying attention.

www.wired.com

 

[GetawaysRus]

Interesting. It's obvious when driving route 395 between S California and Reno/Tahoe that this area was very active geologically in the past. It amazed me the first time I realized that I was driving through an ancient lava field.

I'll have to hang around a few million years and then check in to see who was right.

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EDIT: I thought about this for a few minutes longer. Here is a little math problem for those of you in Covid-19 quarantine.

I have a checking account at Chase. Chase is paying me 0.01% interest (also known as "peanuts"). So, which is the better investment, knowing that the timeframe given on the little map in this article is 15 million years?
1. Should I leave my money in the Chase account and collect compound interest at 0.01% for 15 million years?
2. Or should I buy property along the Walker Lane fault and wait for it to become oceanfront land?

Geologists may make lousy investors.

 

[Karen G]

Yikes! Glad we have earthquake insurance.

 

[mjm1]

Interesting. We haven’t driven from Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe on 395 yet, but plan to make that trip at some point. We lived in San Jose and experienced a number of large earthquakes, including 1989. Never had earthquake insurance and still don’t. Fortunately we never incurred any significant damage.

Best regards.

Mike

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Interesting. It's obvious when driving route 395 between S California and Reno/Tahoe that this area was very active geologically in the past. It amazed me the first time I realized that I was driving through an ancient lava field.

I'll have to hang around a few million years and then check in to see who was right.

--------------------
EDIT: I thought about this for a few minutes longer. Here is a little math problem for those of you in Covid-19 quarantine.

I have a checking account at Chase. Chase is paying me 0.01% interest (also known as "peanuts"). So, which is the better investment, knowing that the timeframe given on the little map in this article is 15 million years?
1. Should I leave my money in the Chase account and collect compound interest at 0.01% for 15 million years?
2. Or should I buy property along the Walker Lane fault and wait for it to become oceanfront land?

Geologists may make lousy investors.

If you do buy property, be sure to get tidal insurance.