Hi Canie. I guess anything is possible now days. Particularly where lawyers are concerned.

This makes me wonder now about how this is going to affect people who make claims about being able to predict earthquakes, or that they have a program, or something like that that can predict where the next major quake is going to occur?

Even if it doesn’t work people could claim it gave them false hope or something like that. It’s heck if you do and heck if you don’t. Anyway I sure wouldn’t be to quick about making statements about being able to predict earthquakes.

Even if the people suing don’t win the lawsuit it is going to cost a lot to defend against it. The only people who stand to make any money, or what have you are the lawyers. I know they said they aren’t seeking any money, but who is going to pay the lawyers?

I watched a program about tsunamis a couple of months ago in the State of Hawaii. It costs the State 30 million dollars for every false alarm. It also decreases the peoples ability to believe that the next tsunami alarm will be for a damaging tsunami. It may hit the coast of Hawaii, but only be 8 inches high as one or two in the past have been.

The Loma Prieta quake in 1989 caused a four-foot tsunami wave in Monterey Bay as well as a huge undersea landslide. The sea level in Santa Cruz dropped three feet. The wave took 20 minuets to reach Monterey. As far as I know no tsunami warning was given. I don’t think anyone even expected one. Probably just as well as there could have been a lot of people going down to the beach to see it as they did for the tsunami from the 1964 Alaska quake. How do you protect people from their own stupidity? Take Care…Don in creepy town