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2 Centuries After New Madrid Quakes, What's Next?
AP via ABC ^ | 12/16/11 | ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press

Posted on 12/16/2011 5:45:35 PM PST by SmithL

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Nope! I am not concerned enough to move back to the SF Bay area.
1 posted on 12/16/2011 5:45:43 PM PST by SmithL
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I thought that the NM has gone off in the last ~30 yr.


2 posted on 12/16/2011 5:51:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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Mark


3 posted on 12/16/2011 5:53:38 PM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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I got property on that side of the Ozarks but I live on the West side. Soon I may have Caribbean ocean front property there!
4 posted on 12/16/2011 5:54:46 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Fracking!

Oldplayer


5 posted on 12/16/2011 5:57:02 PM PST by oldplayer
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I wish I had known this was the 200th anniversary earlier today. I would have bought some commemoration ammo or something:)
6 posted on 12/16/2011 5:58:25 PM PST by Cold Heart
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The Gubmint checks sent out to those devasted areas must have run into the half dimes.


7 posted on 12/16/2011 6:01:38 PM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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The last time New Madrid rocked, it created Reelfoot lake and rang church bells all the way in Boston.


8 posted on 12/16/2011 6:14:32 PM PST by SmithL (Proud Tennessee Volunteer)
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“I thought that the NM has gone off in the last ~30 yr.”
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I don’t think so.
There have been very minor tremors over the years.
The last that I felt was in the mid 70s.
Some years after that, the big Earthquake guru (don’t remember is name) predicted a big quake for the area but it never materialized.

There was a big TV special (Natl. Geo?) on Earthquakes just last week...quite frightening.
There was considerable time devoted to the New Madrid fault.


9 posted on 12/16/2011 6:14:47 PM PST by AlexW
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I had a stack of tires fall over in my garage. I’ll have to look it up.


10 posted on 12/16/2011 6:23:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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Does not sound like a seismic event.
Probably just got tired.


11 posted on 12/16/2011 6:32:11 PM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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To: SmithL

As I understand there were also reports of the Mississippi running backwards.


12 posted on 12/16/2011 6:34:22 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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Iben Browning circa 1990. There WAS a 4.5 or so here locally, and the rush of media swamped New Madrid. The “big one” never came though.

Browning also believed that global cooling was coming as well.


13 posted on 12/16/2011 6:38:22 PM PST by magritte
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I live on the outer edge of the NMF line and where the experts believe our little place will be the closest that will not have extensive infrastructure damage. The Disaster Preparedness plan for this area to take in refugees from Memphis and the Northern Mississippi area to be cared for here. I am not too happy about this.


14 posted on 12/16/2011 6:38:49 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2605094/posts

NEW 3.0 EARTHQUAKE IN ARKANSAS NEW MADRID FAULT LINE 8 Quakes in total TODAY.

New Madrid Earthquake ^ | October 10, 2010
Posted on Sun Oct 10 2010 19:13:53 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by SumProVita


15 posted on 12/16/2011 6:43:06 PM PST by txhurl (Perry/Pence 2012 OR Perry/Ryan 2012 or even better Perry/Abbott 2012!)
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Vetvet...Ahhhhh, I am an Olive Branch resident of the Memphis 'burbs....I was kinda hoping you had a place for me and my family...ya, lnow, just in case.

Now I see that we'll have to stay in a Holiday Inn Express so I can solve everything the day after.

But, uh, just in cased they're booked, do you like football on Sundays and Thursday night "family" Scrabble games???

16 posted on 12/16/2011 6:46:24 PM PST by IrishPennant (We don't want to work so we go to work to make enough money not to work...Huh?)
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Seismologists are starting to get some lead time, even days, at least for truly huge earthquakes.

“This is called the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling mechanism. The thinking is that in the days before an earthquake, the great stresses in a fault as it is about to give cause the releases large amounts of radon.

“The radioactivity from this gas ionises the air on a large scale and this has a number of knock on effects. Since water molecules are attracted to ions in the air, ionisation triggers the large scale condensation of water.

“But the process of condensation also releases heat and it is this that causes infrared emissions.”

So the question becomes: “If you can notify people in an area to expect a great earthquake in a day or two, do you order an evacuation that will cost millions of dollars, leaving just emergency services behind on safer ground?”

Actually, George W. Bush created some enormous FEMA contingency plans for just this sort of event, after Katrina. These include relocation camps for thousands of people, which the more paranoid suspected of being internment camps, and the government was not smart enough to explain their real purpose.”


17 posted on 12/16/2011 6:50:40 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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“NEW 3.0 EARTHQUAKE IN ARKANSAS NEW MADRID FAULT LINE 8 Quakes in total TODAY.”
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I have not been there since 2008, so I would not know about the small tremors.
They are probably good, and help the faults from becoming “locked”.
The real and massive earthquakes are from locked faults that
finally let loose with a big bang.


18 posted on 12/16/2011 6:51:02 PM PST by AlexW
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Its the folks North of DeSoto County that I am worried about.
19 posted on 12/16/2011 6:52:40 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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There hasn’t been a big one for 200 years. You will hear about little tremors every now and then.


20 posted on 12/16/2011 7:08:49 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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