re: #37 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It also helps when you don’t have eight times as many people stuffed into an area as it was designed for.

FBV-

Yes, but the mechanics are very different. Haiti was a strike-slip fault, like the San Andreas, so most of the energy is lateral (Port-au-Prince had lateral acceleration of >10 feet/second). This is a dip-slip, or thrust fault, like Indonesia. Most of the energy is vertical. Imagine taking the entire California coast from San Diego to San Francisco and snapping it *up* eighty feet. That’s what this was.

Nasty bugger and a real tsunami generator.