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Posted on 02/10/2010 2:47:06 AM PST by Daisyjane69
Happy birthday to the wife. I hope she enjoys dinner.
The New Madrid Seismic Zone had four of the largest North American earthquakes in recorded history, with moment magnitudes estimated to be as large as 8.0, all occurring within a three-month period between December of 1811 and February of 1812.
Earthquakes that occur within the New Madrid Seismic Zone threaten parts of seven U.S. states: ILLINOIS, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi.
The New Madrid Seismic Zone, sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, (pronounced New MAH-drid) is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
The New Madrid fault system was responsible for the 1811–12 New Madrid Earthquakes and may have the potential to produce large earthquakes in the future. Since 1812 frequent smaller earthquakes were recorded for the area.
The 150 mi (240 km) long fault system, which extends into five states, stretches southward from Cairo, Illinois, through Hayti, Missouri, Caruthersville and New Madrid, through Blytheville, Arkansas, to Marked Tree. It also covers a part of west Tennessee, near Reelfoot Lake, extending southeast into Dyersburg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone
P.S. My neighbors’ relatives lived in near present-day Pacaducah, KY in the far western part of the state. The western state border is marked by the Mississippi River. According to oral history passed down in their family, when the great quakes happened in 1811/1812 the movement of the earth was so drastic that the water of the mighty Mississippi River flowed backward!
Just off of NW Highway, on Harvard. Cool!
Johnny’s was fine. She had the shrimp, I the Rib Eye.
Sorrento’s is our favorite. We’ve been going there for decades. Their prime rib is out of this world. And after, I have the Brandy Ice and the wife has the Green Frog (comparable to the Brandy Ice). Excellent.
They’re 5 miles East on Hwy 64, right were Sycamore Speedway is. The restaurant’s right on the hwy, on the South side.
RE: ‘guidance’
...a message (rocks Chicago?)
Thanks for the link, and did you see my Comment #170?
God crackin’ His knuckles.
man-made earthquake?
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My daughter near O’Hare slept thru it, cried more about digging through snow on way to bus this am. My daughter in Peoria felt nada. New Madrid I gather? Last week a FReeper on CA shaker thread said NM was having multiple lil shakers
“shame it didnt hit the south side, it might have made it look better than it currently is.”
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////When Hugo ripped through South Carolina, Lumberton, NC got some high winds from the outlying edge of the hurricane. A friend of mine who lived in Lumberton claimed that it did ten thousand dollars worth of improvements there.
When I heard Illinois had an earthquake, and I'm sitting here in Baltimore with four feet of snow on the ground, I said to my sister that we were truly living in the end times.
Perhaps. We can hope.
Man, if you’re not the most quick-witted one around here, I don’t know what gives!
See post 43 of 193.
Way to go, sparky!
Wait!
I caught myself again!
I correct myself....42 of 193! Earlier than your eagle eyes!
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