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To: Stonewall Jackson; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; All

If you can find something similar for the 3 great 8+ quakes for New Madrid, MO, 1811-12 that will give you some idea. There also there were many lesser quakes.


39 posted on 02/06/2013 11:28:48 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find such a map. However those quakes woke people in Norfolk and York (now Toronto, Canada, broke windows in Philadelphia, cracked sidewalks in Washington DC, rang church bells in Boston, and toppled chimneys in Maine (was part of Massachusetts at the time).

Something a lot of people don't realize is that a young Abraham Lincoln lived just 250 miles from the quakes' epicenters and Jefferson Davis had lived less than 150 miles away, but his family had moved to Louisiana just a few months earlier. What would history be like if one, or both, of those young children (Lincoln was 2 and Davis was 3 at the time) had been killed in the quake?

44 posted on 02/07/2013 12:38:02 AM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Molon Labe!)
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