Posted on 05/13/2021 5:43:34 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Pipeline shutdown, Hernando de Soto bridge cracked in Memphis, sinkhole in Missouri draining a lake… Coincidence? or signs of the next big one along the New madrid Fault in the Midwest?
Lone Elk Park in St. Louis County has a leaky lake — and an SUV-sized sinkhole that opened up there in recent days has drained about a third of it.
St. Louis County Parks Director Tom Ott said he got word Friday that the lake had dropped about 3 feet, and then enough water drained away over the weekend to reveal the sinkhole.
This isn’t the first time this has happened at the manmade lake, called the Lone Elk Reservoir, said Ott. In 2016, a similar sinkhole about 4 to 5 feet across appeared in the vicinity of the new one. Then, they had someone inspect it and had concrete slurry poured into the hole to patch it.
The county will get a hydraulic engineer to look at the sinkhole, and will send someone with a drone to take pictures of it. They’ll also add signage along the shoreline to warn people to keep away.
Ott wonders if a small-magnitude earthquake reported near Eureka on April 20 shook anything loose.
He said that in the early 1990s the lake was always full, but in the past 20 years it hasn’t held water the way it should. “We’ve had people look at it — they couldn’t tell where it was leaking,” he said.
The water has drained underground and come up on the Castlewood State Park side in an old creek bed, but the water was not causing issues.
Meanwhile, all lanes on the Hernando Desoto Bridge were closed Tuesday until further notice after an inspection found a crack that requires investigation.
Memphis Police said the bridge is being inspected, and it is unknown when the I-40 bridge will reopen. It could be closed for month…
Right now, drivers can use the Interstate 55 bridge to cross the Mississippi River.
Is the New Madrid Seismic Zone heating up? Now, if you add to this giant sinkhole, the shutdown of the I-40 bridge in downtown Memphis due to infrastructure damage and the hacked (?) pipeline… Are these more signs of the overdue New Madrid earthquake?
It’s time to talk about what we can expect when the New Madrid rips and tears. The infamous New Madrid Fault is forecast to take out 150 miles of the Midwest and will end up more devastating than the San Andreas quake which is also overdue!
The New Madrid fault line essentially follows the Mississippi River from Illinois to Arkansas. The last major adjustment of this seismic zone was way back in December 1811 and since science says this happens about every 200 years we’re WAY OVERDUE for another big adjustment and we have a lot of ground to cover.
This seismic zone is a series of faults under the continental crust which can’t be seen on the surface. The fault system extends 150 miles south from Cairo Illinois through Caruthersville Missouri, down through Blythesville Arkansas to Marked Tree Arkansas. It then dips into Kentucky near Fulton and into Tennessee near Reelfoot Lake and extends southeast to Dyersburg Tennessee SO it crosses five state lines and crosses the Mississippi River in at least three places.
Seems like a local affair that will only affect five states, but wait, not so fast. The last time this happened Bells rang in Boston, Massachusetts.
The first of three magnitutde 8 quakes totally destroyed the town of New Madrid and there were only 400 people living there at the time but there were 2 more magnitude 8 quakes that continued to shake and rip the surface. Residents said that the ground rolled in visible waves and land sank and bulged in places, huge cracks swallowed things whole and it was ultimately felt in 25 states as far away as the Carolinas, Washington DC and into Canada. Charleston, SC was devastated with damage.
The crew of the New Orleans (the first steamboat on the Mississippi, which was on her maiden voyage) reported mooring to an island only to awake in the morning and find that the island had disappeared below the waters of the Mississippi River.
The area surrounding the New Madrid is essentially mud, sandy soil, wet from the Mississippi River and Missouri and Tennessee and Ohio rivers which join near the New Madrid fault line, and liquifaction (sort of like quicksand) will affect a vast area far and wide.
The jolts that come from earthquakes which we’ve already been experiencing can rearrange saturated soil and any heavy objects on top of the soils can sink or topple over.
Now think about all the buildings that line the whole New Madrid seismic zone. There’s a lot of people living in these areas. A lot of bridges and infrastructure to consider and let’s not forget about all the nuclear facilities that tend to be built near waterways. This is serious business folks.
The government has been preparing for this event for more than a decade. Expect mass bridges to be torn, trains derailed, gas explosions, water main breaks which create huge sinkholes, roadways impassable, lots of people displaced. It will make Katrina look like child’s play.
Looking at that second photo, I would not be that close to the sinkhole.
Eh, no. They have nothing to do with New Madrid geology.
And not with a little toddler. Stupid parents.
That sinkhole reminds me of Onigafuchi swamp from Higurashi.
Please, Lod, not this!
All my Tennessee kin will be moving in with me inPennsylvania.
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Lord, too!
“When the levy breaks...”
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The fault is going to shift sometime, but these particular events are no reason to be concerned that is anytime soon.
Interestingly, one thing I don’t see much mentioned on this sort of topic is how lots of dams could go and quite literally wash thousands away. IF a quake happened in the right spot.
OTOHm Joe Biden has his finger on the nuclear button. Soooo, let’s put our panic priorities in proper perspective here.
Most (all?) of the petroleum pipelines that service the NE will be affect when the New Madrid Fault goes off again. But, misery loves company, so there’s that.
BTW - how is a computer attack the fault’s fault?
A lot of limestone and caves....
IF New Madrid lets got like it did back in the 1800s.....the economic damage will be almost incalculable.
Some “light” reading, fictional, about another New Madrid quake:
Fast-paced and terrifyingly real, The Rift is a blockbuster novel of destruction, heroism, and survival that is sure to grab fans of recent disaster movies.
It starts with the dogs. They won’t stop barking. And then the earth shrugs - 8.9 on the Richter scale. It’s the world’s biggest earthquake since Lisbon in 1755, and it doesn’t hit California or Japan or Mexico, but New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi River. Seismologists had predicted the scope of the disaster - but no one listened.
For hundreds of miles around, dams burst, engulfing entire counties in tidal waves of mud and debris. Cities collapse into piles of brick and shards of glass. Hospitals and schools crumble. Bridges twist and snap, spilling rush-hour traffic into rivers already swollen with bodies. Within minutes, there is nothing but chaos and ruin from St. Louis to Vicksburg, from Kansas City to Louisville. Every bridge down, every highway torn, every house gone.
America’s heartland has fallen into the nightmare known as the Rift, a fault line in the earth that wrenchingly exposes the fractures in American society itself. As a strange white mist smelling of sulfur rises from the crevassed ground, the real terror begins for the survivors, who will soon envy the dead, including:
Oh they’re a safe distance.
Sigh.....live in Jonesboro Ark —about 33 miles from Marked Tree.....we left the land of hurricanes to return to the land of New Madrid and Tornadoes, to be closer to our kids. All I can say, is “pick your poison” when you live in the good ol’ USA.....
True!
Pennsylvania is due for another hundred year flood.
I live in between two raging creeks.
All I can say, is “pick your poison” when you live in the good ol’ USA.....
Is there anywhere in America which is not prone to some sort of natural disaster or severe weather?
There are sometimes discussions in my extended family, as we have family in many parts of the country. And the discussions will talk about, how can we live in California, when we have earthquakes and brush fires? And our response to midwestern relatives is, how can you live in tornado alley? How can you stand the severe winters?
And the response to the Florida branch of the family is, well, Florida has hurricanes, even if not prone to earthquakes. So what are all of you trying to say?
BTTT
It might be prudent to tie off to a tree first, but I’d go right up to the edge where the water’s flowing.
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