A 7.0 earthquake in the Midwest? Planning for the "maximum-of-maximums"

FEMA ^ | 12/16/2010 | Tim Manning

[Mind-numbed Robot]

With this administration I don’t trust them on any national emergency exercise. They always have something else in mind other than what they state.

[Travis McGee]

Wow...thanks! BTW, my next novel (unrelated to the enemies trilogy) is almost finished.

[JimRed]

Something is sure going on around here...

Heavy equipment deep underground, digging the regime's final retreat hidey-hole for 12/21/2012?

[Elle Bee]

Not at all ... thank you for your service and thanks for all of your good work

as we say here down island .. fly low bawana

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[Free Vulcan]

They say that even here in SE Iowa that an 8.0 in the Madrid would drop buildings here.

[night reader]

I know we Mormons are not overly popular with some Freepers, but we’re not all Romneybots, and we do have some good information available at http://www.providentliving.org/channel/0,11677,8033-1,00.html .

[FromLori]

I have no problems with Mormons and I thank you for the information.

[Travis McGee]

Hard to fly low with one’s name on lots of books, but I do try! Thanks!

[Elle Bee]

someone has to trim the tree tops ... good luck with the new book

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[pepperdog]

We had a 4.3 in October, right down the road from me. I live East of OKC.

[SunkenCiv]

It's the stuff legends are made of. On this day [December 16] 199 years ago, the first in a series of catastrophic earthquakes rocked the Midwest along the New Madrid seismic zone. Although the epicenter of the December 16th quake was in northeast Arkansas, the magnitude of the quake reportedly caused church bells to ring along the East coast.

Thanks FromLori!

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[dragnet2]

Get out of the Midwest as fast as possible.

[dragnet2]

Arkansas averages somewhere around 30-50 small tremors a year. This year, we’ve had somewhere around 450+

It's time to leave.

[cornfedcowboy]

I remember seeing a show about being in a high rise in Downtown SF during an earthquake. The conclusion was that it was better to be in the building rather than being outside below the building. The building would stand but you would be buried under 10ft of glass if you were standing outside.

[dragnet2]

They say that even here in SE Iowa that an 8.0 in the Madrid would drop buildings here.

An 8.0 will devastate the entire Midwest

[OB1kNOb]

Yeah, but the ride that high up during the quake - yow!

[cornfedcowboy]

Just use a saddle for an office chair.

[rdl6989]

An earthquake in the midwest would be felt over a much wider area than one in California of the same magnitude due to the bedrock of the midwest.

"Our bedrock here is old, really rigid and sends those waves a long way," Bob Bauer, a geologist with the Illinois State Geological Survey, told the AP. Bauer equated the Midwest bedrock, which lies from a few feet to a few thousand feet below the earth’s surface, to a smooth bell that transmits seismic waves like sound. "California is young bedrock," he explained, "It's broken up ... like a cracked bell. You ring that, the waves don't go as far."

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1350747/scientists_seek_understanding_of_midwest_earthquakes/

[SunkenCiv]

I seem to recall that one of the eyewitness accounts of the great New Madrid quake said the land looked like someone shook a blanket.