Posted on 03/04/2022 4:01:05 PM PST by BusterDog
Well if we can survive the next 3 yrs of Dementia Joe and his group of buffoons..than I will worry about this
“I recall reading the last big New Madrid quake made church bells in Boston ring. Yikes!”
Quakes are felt more intensely at higher elevations.
Church bells made of bronze have already been stolen by “immigrants” for their melt-down value.
:-/
“What SoCal has to look forward to...”
Southern Cal? No big loss. But the world better worry about the southwestern tip of Montana and he northwestern tip of Wyoming where Yellowstone is. If the Teton fault picks up a piece of the New Madrid fault and an earthquake opens the cauldron, it will not be pretty.
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No big loss?
There might be a little more there than you are aware of.
Given that 320 is right in the middle of the range predicted, I would not be deriding them-—wait 50 years when they have passed the margin of error by at least a decade.
OK
I believe it was Mark Twain who defined an expert as, “some guy from out of town with a briefcase.”
Another thing those “experts” never mentioned. There was no tsunami warning on any Pacific island, not Hawaii or the west coast when that volcanic eruption/quake flattened parts of Tonga.
The 6.2 quake off Petrolia on 12/20/21 was NOT predicted and no news. But get a 3.3 shaker in Los Angeles and people make a run on toilet paper and generators.
I only care just enough to post, I don’t care.
Memphis will likely be hardest hit because it is built on a sand aquifer.
The Memphis Sand aquifer
Boston is sea level.
I’m not too worried until Klaus Schwab tells us that we are underprepared for devastating earthquakes that will be coming soon.
Church bells rang in Boston and Miss. River flowed backwards, among other things... A sizeable quake like 1811-1812 would be felt and cause damage for many, many miles away.
That said, the New Madrid earthquake area has been aware of this threat for some time. In the 80s a professor at Southeast Missouri State predicted a big one that never happened. But that got people and governments to start thinking in terms of at least working to mitigate the problems. Newer public buildings and works are being built to modern earthquake standards.
But a 1811-12 New Madrid earthquake would be a major disaster, no doubt.
Yeah, St. Louis ain’t gonna slide into the ocean, that’s for sure.
Last time Yellowstone erupted, it laid a red hot glass ash flow south of Amarillo TX.
Goodbye cruel world!
Guess stocking up on all those pinto beans and bourbon won’t be needed after all (laf).
It’s a logarithmic scale. 7 is ten times more powerful than a 6 and 8 is ten times more powerful than a 7. So an 8 is 100 times more powerful than a 6.
When I was working commercial aviation, an “expert” was someone who was more than 100 miles from home.
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