Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Quake coming on the New Madrid fault?

I found an interesting article at the link below, and its from a local source that I had not read before. There was a quake last week (4.1 on the Richter scale) along the New Madrid fault, worth noting because at some point, sooner or later, there will almost certainly be a major quake. Hopefully it won't be in my lifetime, but you never know. If, or more likely when, the quake occurs, Memphis and Cape Girdeau will be very hard hit, and St. Louis and Little Rock will bear some of it too, it will likely be felt all over the midwest. I remember reading a long time ago about the last major quake along the fault made the Mississippi River flow backwards for a brief time, that had to be scary to see. When it does hit, to quote from Memphis' favorite Elvis, "there will be a whole lotta shakin goin on". Pretty clever eh?

One interesting thing I learned from the article is that the strongest earthquake ever in the Continental US was not in California, but along the New Madrid fault in the 1800's.

The link to the article is here:
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5820/

Here is also a link to the USGS website about the New Madrid fault that you may want to check out:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/nm722.htm

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