The first hand accounts of the NM quake are apocolyptic. BIrds going crazy, the earth rolling in waves, fissures and cracks swallowing people, large trees split from bottom up by cracks, “earthquake lightning,” some really really crazy stuff.
Imagine if Memphis was flattened, adn the inner city survivors blamed “the man” for building bad housing for them, “to get them killed.”
Then, no food or water for weeks. Anger, racial hatred, fear and starvation would be a lethal mix, socially. It would make Katrina look like a day in the park.
C35. Just imagine inner city Memphis survivors pouring out into the countryside looking for food, and not exactly in a cheerful mood.
There is a novel by Peter Hernon called 8.4 about a quake in the NMSZ. A great read and very realistic.