Four (Small) Earthquakes Last Week Near Memphis, TN

US Earthquake Map, USGS ^ | 01/09/2008 | Robert A Cook

[Robert A Cook PE]

And the government has a role here, but not as the nanny-state protect-us-from-all-boogiemen-in-the-dark that Mrs Clinton and her MSM promotes.

[Strategerist]

It's dismissed almost casually in most of today's "history" books as an "inactive" fault,

I've never seen the slightest evidence of this.

[Young Werther]

It's Bush's fault!

Calling Edwards! Calling Edwards! I want to Sue!

Does $3 Quadrillion sound like a good figger!

[Doogle]

...just Rosie O’Mouth passing through going home

[Martins kid]

This is happening because the earthquake threat in that area is ignored.

Because of the real and tangible threat, every household in that area should have at least a couple of weeks emergency rations/gear stowed away. But do they - Noooooo - they think it just can’t happen in their life times or they think that the government will rebuild for them.

[Strategerist]

This is happening because the earthquake threat in that area is ignored.

I don't think it's ignored. Certainly isn't ignored by geologists and governments. I regularly see articles in the scientific press and in the popular press about the threat of the New Madrid Fault Zone.

Plenty of citizens may ignore it, but that's also true in California.

If anything I think what perhaps gets ignored is the (likely greater than New Madrid) earthquake threat in places like Utah, Reno Nevada, Albuquerque, and other places in the intermountain West.

[wolfcreek]

This was no *small* geological event in American history.

From what I’ve seen, this went on for a couple of yrs. with several major quakes.

If it happened today.......

[stayathomemom]

I have a habit of checking the Quake Sheet at Drudge ever few days. That area is always active.

[Man50D]

Move to California!

[Travis McGee]

I need to write faster!

If the New Madrid busts loose, it could take out the TN River dams, and most of the bridges over the Mississippi, TN and Ohio Rivers between Vicksburg and Paducah, as well as wrecking highway overpasses etc. Many major natural gas pipelines from the Gulf to the Northeast could also be broken. It would be difficult to bring in relief supplies and reconstruction equipment, because the highway, river and RR infrastructure would all be cut or blocked at the same time in an interlocking way.

[Coldwater Creek]

I live 11 miles from the Mississippi River just a little north of Memphis.

I grew up in L.A. I take earth wakes very seriously.

[Larry Lucido]

Anyone seen Elvis lately? Maybe he’s up and doing aerobics.

[CholeraJoe]

People settle in Earthquake, Flood, Tornado, Hurricane and Blizzard prone areas and then blame the government because a natural catastrophe strikes them? Stupidity reigns!

I don’t live too far from this area. Maybe I’ll hit the Disaster Lottery some day, too.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nah ... 8<)

Already served my time in h*ll out there.

(We got woken up here in NW GA (Atlanta area) a few years ago by a quake in Alabama ... )

[Sybeck1]

I was here in Memphis and didn’t feel a thing.

[DvdMom]

I Saw an interesting show about the coming Memphis earthquake ... I think it was on the Discovery Channel ...

The show showed archeology info which was fascinating & the bad earthquakes has happened more than once in the Memphis & other areas .

[Just mythoughts]

If the New Madrid busts loose,....

It would make what Hurricane Kat did to New Orleans look like a mud puddle.

[Man50D]

(We got woken up here in NW GA (Atlanta area) a few years ago by a quake in Alabama ... )

Same thing happened about four years ago to me in Connecticut from a quake that originated in eastern Canada.

[Robert A Cook PE]

With those small a series of quakes?

True, you almost certainly would not feel anything below a 3.

[Sig Sauer P220]

If the New Madrid busts loose, it could take out the TN River dams, and most of the bridges over the Mississippi, TN and Ohio Rivers between Vicksburg and Paducah, as well as wrecking highway overpasses etc. Many major natural gas pipelines from the Gulf to the Northeast could also be broken. It would be difficult to bring in relief supplies and reconstruction equipment, because the highway, river and RR infrastructure would all be cut or blocked at the same time in an interlocking way.

Yes, but what about New Orleans?