Posted on 05/22/2009 12:39:09 PM PDT by Mom MD
Didn't Placido Domingo give more than this himself after the last major Mexico City quake?
ML/NJ
I am going to make a prediction: New Madras fault shaking within the time now and start of summer
St Louis will feel a 5.0
Just a hunch, I dont believe in modern prophecy, I just believe in the signs of the times! :)
That’s New Madrid.
oh, okay...
was it because there weren’t as many skyscrapers as now?
Building inspectors are one of the most corruption-prone groups there is, it seems. They had a huge sting in New York a couple of years ago that raked in virtually half the department.
I remember seeing photos of the city after the 85 quake - parts of it were simply flattened.
There’s been a lot of earthquake activity in SoCal and as far south as Central America this week. I guess the fault must be making itself comfortable, doing a little settling.
well, i suppose it might be under mejico city
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Surely I am. I was sitting on the bowl at 4:30 AM when a 6.4 launched me off it. 1.5 miles from Northridge. What a mess of broken crap.
People were buying beer with cash because they had to BBQ the food in their fridges before it goes bad. No gas and no electricity and no phones. So we had a pool party. With guys shaving and using pool water to flush toilets.
Any quake would seem to cause added pressure on neighboring plates. I’m not sure that New Madrid will be affected by what we see on the west coast these days though.
We’re more a ‘ring of fire’ group. There’s 1,600 miles between the west coast and the New Madrid region.
When it goes off, worry about New England feeling it, not St. Louis. St. Louis should worry about the path of the Mississippi river as much as anything else. It will definitely feel it.
In the early 1800 quake (1811 and thereabouts, several quakes) I believe, the Mississippi river flowed backwards for a period of time, and it’s path was altered.
Nashville, Little Rock, St. Louis, New Orleans, the whole eastern portion of the United States would be at risk.
Church bells were caused to ring in Boston by the 1811 event.
There are several problems with the region around New Madrid. Some of that region exists on what appears to be silt. Look at a topographical picture of the region, and you notice mountains extending down into Arkansas, and then it goes flat. Is that flat area a liquefaction risk? It may be.
Then there’s the problem of the housing and industrial buildings in the area. Have they been earthquake retrofitted? I’m not sure they’re up to California’s codes, and the New Madrid quake was one of the strongest on record. If I remember correctly, that 1811 quake was the strongest quake on record in the United States. It may be just the largest in the lower 48.
It hits about every 200 years, and 1811 was the last time it shook.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is one set of concerns I’d like to read if I still lived in that region.
“I guess 0bama will now be bailing out the Mexican’ts.”
You betcha! We are already sending them 470 Million this year, buying them helicopters, armed vehicles, giving them guards to keep our guns out, and supporting about 10 million of their citizens and burying about 25 a day of ours because of theirs....so why not??!
I’m sorry to hear about the earthquake. I was in Mexico a few years ago and became friends with a young pre med student, Jorge. The big quake in the 80’s in Mexico City caused a lot of grief. His dad was a doctor, so they went to the center of the damage to help. The Mexican police/army told them they would be shot...and meant it...if they tried to help.
If we send money down there to ‘help’ the victims, it will go right into the pockets of the corrupt ‘authorities’ and drug cartels like it ALWAYS does.
“I would think the same thing, but I am frequently surprised by the (relatively) low numbers of deaths around Mexico City, when they have big shakers down there.”
Heck, we can’t get accurate figures out of our government. You can be sure you don’t get them out of Mexico.
“In the early 1800 quake (1811 and thereabouts, several quakes) I believe, the Mississippi river flowed backwards for a period of time, and it’s path was altered.”
Ah...if that were to happen today, the Sierra Club would sue Mother Nature!
The estimated magnitudes of the largest New Madrid quakes have been reduced a fair amount, to M 7 to 7.5 - none of them are now considered to be as big as the 1906 San Francisco Quake, or the 1857 San Andreas Quake.
Also some recent scholarship is of the opinion that New Madrid is in the process of shutting down (this doesn’t get that much media attention because it’s not the scare stories they want):
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_Madrid_Fault_System_May_Be_Shutting_Down_999.html
This earthquake was quite deep - 60 miles. It’s hard for an M 5.7 that is that deep to do damage anywhere.
I'll call your bet.
Also, I presume that the "New madras" fault is somewhere near Madras, India, rather than near "New Madrid" Missouri??
Has Hitlery blamed America yet?
No, but when she does, I bet she will blame the Bush administration first.
Could be AuntB. To be honest, when they have high six quakes down there, I would think the city would be left in a hovel. It doesn’t work out that way though.
There are far less building collapses than I would think there would be. Generally there are relatively few.
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