Quote:
Originally Posted by Turtle
Well, looks like it was built in 1966, and there wasn't a lot known then about volcanos. A lot still not known today, as no one can predict an eruption such as Redoubt's yet.
|
You're right about that. And the AK pipeline wasn't finished until 1977. As such, crude oil storage just about anywhere in AK has to be both necessary and problematical.
Quote:
I'd say that another danger is as bad there in the inlet that they would have known about and that is a tsunami, as the Alaska quake of 1964 was history then.  Live and learn. 
|
This is why the science of comprehensive risk assessment needs a lot of work.
