A very coast-ist comment.
Used at the end of a drawn out post from someone who grew up along the Eastern seaboard but now lives in the middle of "fly-over country" (in a post that really should be edited if only I had that skill set):
"While listening to East Coast Earthquake coverage (and, at least before yesterday, I would have bet that CA would have fallen into an ocean before NJ -- now I'm not so sure), I overheard one of the talking head science guys (not named Bill Nye, by the way) on the TV set say to those who were surprised at all the shakin' going on: 'but it's a known fact that the east coast has a lot of faults'. I try to be sensitive and inclusionary and balance the degree to which I allow political correctness to influence my personal randomness ... but it did strike me that it was a very coast-ist comment."
THIS FAULT LINE WAS CALLED OUT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2010!:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37407341/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/san-andreas-like-fault-found-eastern-us/
THE BEACHES OF NEW JERSEY (this is not a Jersey Shore reference):
http://www.drbeach.org/NewJersey.htm
LOOK UP YOUR STATE's EARTHQUAKE RELATED HISTORY:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/
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