Posted on 05/13/2021 5:43:34 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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...”
5.56mm
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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