Many of those names are pronounced somewhat differently in MO.
That is pronounced New MADdrid in Missouri, not New MahDrid.
The New Madrid fault is the location of significant earthquakes, 1811-1812.
Posted on 11/29/2008 1:36:43 AM PST by missnry
And it could be a sign of nothing at all. But lets not miss an opportunity to raise fears, and a future- "It's because of global warming" story.
The biggest earthquake in US history actually happened there - but at a time when few people actually inhabited the area in 1811 or 1812.
The New Madrid Earthquake is one of the largest succession of earthquakes, including the most intensive ever indirectly inferred (not recorded) in the contiguous United States, beginning with an initial pair of very large earthquakes on December 16th, 1811, plus aftershocks and other large related quakes separated by a succession of smaller aftershock quakes with the largest event classified as a Mega-quake of greater than 8.0 on the Richter scale occurring on February 7, 1812. It got its name from its primary location in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, near New Madrid, Louisiana Territory (now Missouri), where a stretch of land five miles deep spanning from Arkansas to Illinois shifted and slipped. The fault is believed to generate a slip every 250-400 years.[1]
This earthquake was preceded by three other major quakes: two on December 16, 1811, and one on January 23, 1812. These earthquakes destroyed approximately half the town of New Madrid. There were also numerous aftershocks in the area for the rest of that winter with research indicating a series of some 2,000 earthquakes overall that affected the lands of what would become eight of today’s heartland states of the United States.[1]
There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over roughly 130,000 square kilometers (50,000 square miles), and moderately across nearly 3 million square kilometers (1 million square miles). The historic 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly 16,000 square kilometers (6,000 square miles).
It will be huge if it can be felt at all three Lambert’s including the one in Foley, AL.
Na.
It’s just a minor shift in the earths crust.
Madrid fault ;O)
Oh dear, that was my first thought too.
They have been warning us for a while that Yellowstone was due. And it would certainly be felt down to Arkansas.
This would shake up the world in more ways than one.
We have no written history of such a monumental global event. It would certainly humble those who survived the aftermath.
We saw a special of pontificating scientists on the Science channel. Very interesting stuff. And scary!
Yeah I remember that, sometime around 1979 or '80.
Mornin' Eric. Is there another Lambert's in your area? I know of one in Foley, Alabama. The wife and I have been threatening to fly down there for lunch. Apparently, the folks at the restaurant will come out to the airport and pick you up if you call ahead.....
I’ve read that when the New Madrid fault went off last time cabins in the Smokies were shaken off their foundations. ‘Course, foundations on cabins in 1811-1812 weren’t exactly what we would call foundations now. These days around Memphis, if you look at the bridges, particularly the ones over I-40, you’ll see cable restraints have been installed to keep the bridges from falling apart when the next “big one” hits the area. I noticed them when traveling through the area and you see them installed on bridges for about 100 miles either side of Memphis....
Natural gas drilling?
There are much bigger things at risk than a few log cabins these days...
Sobering when you think that this quake was much, much worse than our worse quakes, such as the 1909 San Francisco quake and about as bad as the one that hit Mexico City in 1985 killing over 10,000.
Hopefully, it will never happen, but it is bound to at any time from about now until the next 200 years or so.
Caused by displaced Californians. Where ever they show up, the land and economy get shaky.
I’ve had lunch at Lamberts in SW Missouri many times and its always good. I draw the line at the courtesy deep fried okra, however.
Lambert’s drives me crazy, throwing those rolls around... and I can’t stand the way they walk around with large bowls from which they serve everyone from... Weird.
But, my wife (and daughter) like to eat there.
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