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		__loam on April 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthq... Buildings a quite a bit older on the east coast and building codes are obviously more lax so we should probably have some empathy here haha.

gosub100 on April 5, 2024 [–]

Plus the main aqua duct that supplies several million people is old and fragile. A simple earthquake could possibly turn into a Flint, Michigan level disaster.

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