When and WHERE will it pop up next? Guesstimates

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

Of course, if it is a large population covering a large area, making a sustained considerable economic contribution or the hazard is large-scale and difficult to assess

The larger the population, infrastructure, and business presence, the greater the loss and emergency government assistance required after a disaster. If your point is to minimize government intervention, a “large population covering a large area” would require the greatest government assistance. By that standard, Puna is a bargain compared to New Orleans and Houston, so why should we move out if they don’t?

As far as a case by case assessment, that would be subjectively determined by those who make the assessment. Puna has too often received the short end of the stick, so I don’t have much faith in the outcome of a case by case basis.

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With such a large population you are almost as likely to move them into the path of an ill-defined hazard (such as hurricanes or an earthquake that might hit anywhere along a fault line running hundreds of miles), than to move them from its path. Furthermore, in addition to people and housing, there would probably be a huge installed base of economic infrastructure.

Obviously, each possible locale needs an independent assessment based on all of these factors, as well as, potentially, others, but those are not "Puna" and I don't want to drift off-topic or locale. I am, after all, a slow learner, but not completely brain-dead.

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