“I have been telling them to secure against non-structural damage ... This may not be necessary for the current quakes but is always a good idea.”
Bill Phillips
“People change-- you have no right to ask them where their "real" selves have gone.”
mishxoxo
“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
Maya Angelou
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area — everyone needs to be prepared.”
Brad Aagaard
“The intensity of the quake was quite strong enough - but the shoddy materials may have caused even more deaths.”
Bushra Gohar
“It was a combination of both. We got lucky because of the depth of the quake. But without the improved seismological science and improved building codes, I think the situation would have been much more deadly.”
Butch Kinerney
