“Scientists tell us that it is just a matter of time before cataclysmic earthquakes erupt along the New Madrid fault zone once again, and when that time arrives the death and destruction that we will witness will be off the charts.”
I can’t disagree. The area affected by the New Madrid quake(s) has become more settled and developed since then.
It would be epically bad.
Scientists are the priesthood of the new Global Religion.
Yeah Covid, Y2K, the eminent collapse of the 3 Gorges Dam, the ending of the Mayan calendar, all epically bad.