Philippine Earthquake - Part 3

 Every 70 years or so we have a Definitive Learning Earthquake, and I think this is the one for this century.  The first was the famous 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but all the wrong lessons were learned from this one.  Then the San Fernando earthquake of the 1970's, and this one.  Each had a huge effect on the earthquake world.

You can see the perfect source, and the predicted intensity.  

The reported intensities match the predicted.  All we need are peak ground velocities, and the scene is laid for advances.  The intensities, or damage, line up with peak ground velocity, a million times better than measured acceleration.  PGA has no physics for damage, so throw that out in the garbage.  All the standard earthquake engineers are all PGA, so that says something.

If somebody can hack the government and get the PGV's we will have a full plate.  

All of this presents a new way of saving lives with regard to earthquakes.  The existing methods of having priesthoods with no concern for the people have failed.  Critical thinking by the consumer will save us, along with the Scientific Method.  Don't go protesting over this appalling death count at 20 cm/s.  Won't do anything.

-- next  I have my grandchildren over from California - lots of energy.

ps I have stopped my attack on the priesthoods.  They really want what's best for you.  I'm now getting direct paypal scams.  Neat.  Good-bye.

ps the other reason to quit is my number on the corruption index for earthquakes.  I saw a picture of the India earthquake and the entire neighbourhood was flattened, except for one concrete house, untouched in the middle.  That was ignorance.  Then there was the Armenia earthquake where every Soviet apartment building was a pile of dust, not even pancaking.  The closest to a 'high corruption' earthquake was Turkey, and that wasn't close to this, since they had some steel.  You could not investigate this earthquake without pissing a lot of people off.  That's why you won't see any analysis.  And I'm staying away.

ps also there are something like 60,000 people red-tagged.  The big problem is the same as Christchurch, in telling who can go back.  Lots of perfectly good buildings will collapse in the next earthquake, and this guy looks to have at least one.