Did you know there is a potentially very dangerous earthquake threat in the middle of America?
It is absolutely true.
The 1811 quake in New Madrid, Missouri, was the biggest in American history. To this day, there are little tremors in southern Missouri all the time. Recently, a woman at the U.S. Geological Survey commissioned a risk-assessment map of the two cities closest to this area, Memphis and St. Louis.
There are fault lines all through Shelby County that are hugely dangerous. However, she has been unable to convince local authorities of the imminent risk in this area (making the situation even more dangerous).
We all live on top of geology, that's a given. There's an old saying that humankind exists on this Earth subject to geological consent, which can be revoked at any time, without notice.- Simon Winchester, Geologist
4 comments:
I have heard of the Madrid fault.
It seems like every area has potential for natural disastor.
Here we might get blown up by a huge volcano that is under Yellowstone Park.
I live in central Arkansas. When I was in school, I remember having earthquake drills! No kidding...that was when they thought it was going to happen any day.
yes... I remember reading about that one.
there is a fault that runs through our valley, too.
we've had a few shakers
We occasionally have little ones around here, usually measuring like 2-3 on the Richter scale. And it never fails that I'll talk to someone who'll say they felt it. But I never do.
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