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Originally Posted by Anthony
Then I wouldn't go with EMP. It might destroy the city's economy, causing it to be unsustainable and have massive population loss, but it won't in any direct way make the area unlivable.
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Depends on what make the area livable although the DIRECT qualifier is well taken.
If the pumps moving water to LA were fried and/or the trucks moving food in were inoperative LA would become a death zone in weeks... but that's indirect.
For the EMP thing to really work it has to be world wide, otherwise relief would arrive within a few weeks if not days... and really, absent some secret lab with an experiment that goes wrong, who is going to set off an EMP in the BFE outback of Australia?
EMP fries some of the electronics currently operating but a lot of things that were shut off or protected will still work as will anything brought into the area of effect from outside. EMP is instantaneous, the effect doesn't linger.