{"id":1602,"date":"2011-08-24T14:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/earthquakes-at-ga-nukes.html"},"modified":"2011-08-24T14:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T18:35:04","slug":"earthquakes-at-ga-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/earthquakes-at-ga-nukes.html","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes at GA nukes?"},"content":{"rendered":"There are no earthquakes in Georgia, right?\nWell, Charleston is close enough for the Savannah River.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosizneias.com\/78803\/2011\/03\/16\/los-angeles-ca-concern-over-us-nuclear-reactors-near-earthquake-fault-line\/\">\nAccording to Southern Company,<\/a>\nwhich is building two new reactors at Plant Vogtle:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/states\/events\/1886_09_01_pics.php\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/states\/events\/images\/1886_09_01_001_small.gif\"><\/a>\nAmong the largest known regional earthquakes was an 1886 earthquake that\nstruck Charleston, S.C., about 85 miles from the Plant Vogtle site&#8230;.\n<\/blockquote>\n1886 was more than 100 years ago! Probably a 500 year event. Oh, wait,\nwe had a 700 year flood here a few years ago. And those earthquakes in\nColorado and Virginia were 100 year events&#8230;.\n<p>\nWell, if it was near Charleston it must have been minor, less than\nthat 6.8 quake in Virginia just now (within a few dozen miles of a nuke).\nExcept\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/states\/events\/1886_09_01.php\">\nUSGS says\nthe Charleston quake was 7.3 magnitude:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nThis is the most damaging earthquake to occur in the Southeast United\nStates and one of the largest historic shocks in Eastern North America. It\ndamaged or destroyed many buildings in the old city of Charleston and\nkilled 60 people. Hardly a structure there was undamaged, and only\na few escaped serious damage. Property damage was estimated at $5-$6\nmillion. Structural damage was reported several hundred kilometers from\nCharleston (including central Alabama, central Ohio, eastern Kentucky,\nsouthern Virginia, and western West Virginia), and long-period effects\nwere observed at distances exceeding 1,000 kilometers.\n<\/blockquote>\nSo let&#8217;s see, 86 miles is 137 kilometers.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytitan.com\/2010\/03\/09\/california-due-for-a-tremblor-experts-say\/\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"198\" height=\"128\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.dailytitan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/US_NEWS_CALIFQUAKE_8_SJweb.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe most recent San Francisco earthquake, the Little Big One of 1989,\nwas a 7.1.\nThat&#8217;s the one that turned the 880 freeway into the 440\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytitan.com\/2010\/03\/09\/california-due-for-a-tremblor-experts-say\/\"> by collapsing the upper deck<\/a> and closing the Bay Bridge.\n<p>\nWell, at least they&#8217;re not building a solar power plant on the Savannah River.\nIf those things break in a quake you get&#8230; sunshine.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are no earthquakes in Georgia, right? Well, Charleston is close enough for the Savannah River. According to Southern Company, which is building two new reactors at Plant Vogtle: Among the largest known regional earthquakes was an 1886 earthquake that struck Charleston, S.C., about 85 miles from the Plant Vogtle site&#8230;. 1886 was more than [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,104,73,24],"tags":[3885,2646,316,3886,3888,8737,1009,3887,8714,108,626],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-nuclear","category-safety","category-solar","tag-3885","tag-charleston","tag-earthquake","tag-little-big-one","tag-loma-prieta","tag-nuclear","tag-nuke","tag-san-francisco","tag-solar","tag-southern-company","tag-vogtle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-pQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}