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Originally Posted by StorytellerStealth
Just like a giant Asteroid, is overdue to hit the earth. Kill all of us like the dinosaurs.
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That's a really dumb comparison.
First, I can choose not to live in earthquake-prone California. I don't have much choice about living on the Earth.
Second is the relative likelihood of such events.
USGS estimates the likelihood of an M8 event in the next 30 years at 30%. The Cascadia event, M9+, that I referred to earlier is on an approximate 500 year cycle. I'll leave it up to a statistician to estimate the likelihood of the latter in any given year.
These percentages are orders of magnitude higher than predictions for a world-killer asteroid.
