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Wow i forgot about the NEW MADRID Earthquake Zone, I have a book on it. It has major quakes on average every 200-300 years. The last in 1812. So its due!
Damn.....Dallas, Memphis, St. Louis & Chicago flattened.......Houston underwater from rising sea water.
HMMMMMMMMM?
South Dakota is lookin better and better already!
Houston underwater from rising sea water.
HMMMMMMMMM?
Actually the quake can't be felt all the way to the Gulf Coast. I can imagine all the Dallasites flocking to Houston for shelter and a new start the same way New Orleanians flocked here during Katrina.
That's from an 1895 earthquake New Madrid earthquake. The big ones were in 1811 and 1812. Those were 7 to 8 on the Richter scale.
From wikipedia:
"There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over 50,000 square miles (130,000 km²), and moderately across nearly one million square miles. The historic San Francisco earthquake of 1906, by comparison, was felt moderately over 6,000 square miles (16,000 km²)."
Its almost as if some people want an earthquake along the New Madrid Fault just to say that they have bigger earthquakes then California...by all means, You can have that title!
Who said that? That's not how New Madrid came up. Since everyone was talking about other impending cataclysms, it was a natural part of the conversation.
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