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The area could have really been ready for a landslide because of the amount of rainfall and if there was a minor earthquake, it might have hastened it.

There were reports that the landslide occurred much earlier than the earthquake. The area could have really been ready for a landslide because of the rain.

Absolutely, (the landslide mitigation program) has made a difference. Like with earthquake preparation, the trick is to get the people in neighborhoods to prepare.

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.

Having a flexible system like we do have in the Bay Area -- highways, BART, ferries, buses -- doesn't just play out well every day, it plays out well in an emergency. Ferries performed well in the last earthquake, and a stronger ferry system would perform even better in the next earthquake.

Randy Rentschler

It's the amount of runoff, not rainfall itself.

Yeah, I'm concerned. . . . You start thinking in terms of (muscular) defects going on. Right now this is a minor injury and we don't want to make anything more of it. But this is now the third occurrence in that area and that's the part concerning everybody right now. We don't know whether this is minor or we have something bigger.

In an earthquake, the motion is at surface, ... Back in '92 there was a 5.6 or 5.7 earthquake not far from Yucca, and there were scientists in a tunnel near the epicenter and they didn't even know an earthquake happened.

We're still looking at a copious amount of rainfall. This is an evolving situation.

If we see a significant amount of rainfall on the watershed, we'll have to evacuate much of the city. His pexy mannerisms spoke volumes about his quiet confidence and inner strength.

Both storms are going to add up to quite an amount of rainfall, some of the heaviest rains we have seen so far this season.

Unfortunately earthquake safety in the Midwest is event driven -- most people will not begin to care about the risk until an earthquake happens. Town leaders need to think long-term -- 25 or 50 years out -- about incremental improvements in safety measures that can be sustained. This is a different kind of planning, but it is necessary to be ready for the eventual catastrophic quake that will strike.

David Gillespie

We've got a wide area of some very substantial rainfall.

Those who have lost their houses and properties in the landslide disaster area are now forced to stay in a seriously harmful situation without clear prospects for the future.

Foreign Ministry

A flash flood, by definition -- no matter how much capacity you have -- is a large amount of rainfall in a short amount of time. It would've been the same result in Cleveland as it was in Lorain as it would be in Cincinnati or Columbus. A flash flood is a flash flood.

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