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<span style="color: #FF0000"> <span style="font-size: 26pt"> CHICKEN LITTLE WAS RIGHT!!!! </span> </span>
 
More accurate than you might realize Mickey.

Quakes in the Mississippi valley are much more common than you might realize and the very real potential is there for very nasty earthquakes. Due to the type of fault system and the areas geology it could make nasty shakers in California look like indigestion by way of comparative damage.

There is a very interesting earthquake history in the Mississippi valley and there is quite a real chance that a 6.5-7.0 could happen there at ANY time.

Its called the "New Madrid Fault Zone".

Find out more here.

https://quake.ualr.edu/public/nmfz.htm
 
DrEntropy said:
Shane said:
...but at least the structures out there are designed for it.
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Agreed! Snow loads, fine. EARTHQUAKES?!?! In Illinois?!?! I know it's not ~common~ there. Now the building codes will be revised, insurance premiums will rise, all with some bureaucrats pointing to this event as justification. :wall:
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Between this and the floods that we just went through, we're going to have to reinforce the walls and then put a boat hull underneath the foundation so it will float next year. I guess I'll be the first with a two story "houseboat" with matching garage. :thumbsup: </span>
 
I was meditating on the porcelain throne when it happened. Out of respect for Basil I'll stop there. and I'm about 30 miles from the epicenter.
 
I highly recommend the book <span style="font-style: italic">A Crack In The Edge Of The World</span> by Simon Winchester. Ostensibly a book about the 1906 San Francisco quake, it has a lot of information about how earthquakes happen, and a good amount about the New Madrid as well.

Local news was full of this early-I slept through it, but my parents were both awakened by a few things rattling. Our dog slept right through as well. At 10:14 I was in Chicago, right up on Michigan Avenue, and didn't feel a thing.

-Wm.
 
Shane said:
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Woke my wife up, she woke me up...doors were rattling and could hear the low rumble...really strange. Then I was sitting here in my office and my monitor started shaking, apparantly it was a 4.5 aftershock, the main one this morning was a 5.2. There was a little damage here in the St. Louis area, western Illinois apparantly felt it more. One of my co-workers saw some pretty large cracks in his front porch and one inside his house. He lives in Edwardsville, IL. I realize this is common on the west coast, but at least the structures out there are designed for it.</span>
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In '89, the Loma Preita earthquake was throwing after shocks of 5.0, then 4.0 etc for three months after the main event. Got to the point you could sense them coming.

And you are right, when the New Madrid Fault Zone goes it will be mess as the land all around it liquefies and rings like a bell.
 
DrEntropy said:
Shane said:
...but at least the structures out there are designed for it.
Click to expand...

Agreed! Snow loads, fine. EARTHQUAKES?!?! In Illinois?!?! I know it's not ~common~ there. Now the building codes will be revised, insurance premiums will rise, all with some bureaucrats pointing to this event as justification. :wall:
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Amen Doc, How true you are!
 
<licks the 11 secret herbs and spices off his fingers before typing> Chicken who?
 
I went to the little town of Petrolia,CA
for the Red Cross, after we had 3 earthquakes
in this area.
It was interesting,watching the locals say
things like "4.1","3.5",etc.Seems they were rating
the aftershocks.

- Doug
 
After a while you get good at it. I was within .2 for the Landers quake and .4 of the northridge quake. Nothing like waking up at o dark 30 with everything flying off the walls.

It's funny but after a while you dont notice the small stuff >4 and dont really pay attention till it gets above 5 and then it gets interesting when it gets above a 6.
 
Is there any ocean front for sale in Arizona yet?
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I've yet to talk to anybody that felt it. Apparantly it was the 18th aftershock since Friday. Now one of the local newsrooms has a link to St. Louis University's siesmograph. Talk about watching grass grow...must be a slow day for news.</span>
 
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