2019: China Lake NAS suffered 5 BILLION dollars damage.Quake

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2019: China Lake NAS suffered 5 BILLION dollars damage.Quake

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...yes, billions... :shock:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... ful-quakes
August 13, 2019

Navy May Need More Than $5 Billion To Fix Its China Lake Base After Powerful Quakes

The service needs to completely replace dozens of buildings at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake,
which is its premier test and development base.
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... naval-base
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https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/0 ... amage.html
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https://www.apnews.com/578bff4f32144c52bcbb62fdf8e020af
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cal ... e-64983473
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Re: 2019: China Lake NAS suffered 5 BILLION dollars damage.Q

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Remember that the US billion is not the same as ours. 1 billion (short scale) in the US is 1000 million or 1 milliard (long scale) as we know it in continental Europe.
Still a lot of money but makes more sense now to most people ;-)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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Re: 2019: China Lake NAS suffered 5 BILLION dollars damage.Q

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...in het Nederlands: miljardenschade...
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