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Analysis: Mapping America’s wicked weather and deadly disasters

The entire U.S. West Coast sits atop the Ring of Fire, a large horseshoe-shaped area that is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean and contains many of the world’s volcanoes. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates about 80 percent of all earthquakes on the planet happen here.

But earthquakes happen elsewhere in North America as well. In 2011, a 5.8-magnitude temblor near Mineral, Va., shook the D.C. area, damaging the Washington Monument and the National Cathedral. In Oklahoma, the injection of wastewater associated with fracking has been responsible for thousands of tiny earthquakes.

Though dangerous, these events have found a way into our identities. Sports teams embrace their local disasters: the cyclones, hurricanes, heat and avalanche. For disasters that hit large urban areas like Houston after Harvey or New York after Sandy, public resources are rushed and declarations that the communities will bounce back stronger than ever are made. Hashtags like #houstonstrong spread on social media.

 

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This may sound ludicrous but I must be casted in a bag in the waters at 72 .Weather should calm down. A double rainbow should appear. Message from God: Let's all think creatively and positively and life will gie us solutions.

Thats what a try to tell you Cheesus!

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