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Every once in a while a comment deserves to be highlighted for being exceptionally clueless.

July 7, 2012 at 2:26 pm

If you build a train track across a strike slip fault, like the San Andreas or Hayward faults, and an earthquake occurs along the fault – the train track will no longer be contiguous.  The train will fly off the track at 200 miles an hour, killing everyone within a mile or two.

Look what happened to this fence in the 1906 earthquake.

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