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Is Middle America Due For a Huge Earthquake?
The Atlantic ^ | June 23, 2016 | Peter Brennan

Posted on 06/28/2016 7:56:44 AM PDT by C19fan

As I drove across the I-40 bridge into Memphis, I was reassured: chances were slim that a massive earthquake would wrest the road from its supports, and plunge me more than a hundred feet into the murky Mississippi. Thanks to a recently completed $260 million seismic retrofit, the bridge—a chokepoint for traffic in the central U.S.—is now fortified. It’s also decked out with strong-motion accelerometers and bookended by borehole seismometers to record convulsions in the earth.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: beachfrontvegas; earthquake; earthquakes; quake; temblor
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To: C19fan

To me the most astonishing thing about the article was how the author felt he had to throw in politics into a “science” article. He attacks the “right-wing” and drags in Alex Jones and Infowars, etc.

I guess he has to show his bosses that he’s still on their plantation, even though he has visited middle America.

Rick


21 posted on 06/28/2016 9:03:34 AM PDT by RickGee
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To: 556x45

Some people will do anything to get away from Arkansas.


22 posted on 06/28/2016 9:21:37 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Yo-Yo

Good grief y’all...it could be another 20, 50, 1000 years.


23 posted on 06/28/2016 9:51:53 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: 556x45

One detail left out of the earthquake/bridge conundrum is consideration of the approaches to the actual bridge structure. Many of the bridges will survive and still be unusable until the access on each end is rebuilt.


24 posted on 06/28/2016 9:55:31 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: samtheman
Do I need to explain it to you?


25 posted on 06/28/2016 11:22:03 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: meatloaf

:)


26 posted on 06/28/2016 11:26:09 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: C19fan
The bridge may survive the initial earthquake but when the Memphians riot and get out of control like they have in the past, the bridge will be useless and impassable.
27 posted on 06/28/2016 11:43:14 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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