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.
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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“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.
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:
BTTT
Hmmm...no guns.
I honestly believe the next big quake will be on the New Madrid fault line, and when it goes many, many millions of people will be affected by it. It will indeed become a national calamity, and one that the nation asked for when it, once again, tries to divide Jerusalem.
See my tagline.
I just read a book about this made from various diaries one man Said he was about a quarter mile from the bank of the Mississippi River and looked out and couldn’t see the water he normally saw. Cracks and crevices opened all around him people fell on and we’re crushed to death. Then he looked out an saw the water was rushing but back in the wrong direction.
To get back to safe ground they had to throw a rope to tie around him in case he fell in too. A lot of fur trapper’s around then.
I’ll try to find the book it was off a free site and supposedly true accounts of people who lived near the river...
We lived in Cape Girardeau MO area on the north end of the N.M fault for about 10 years.
While we lived there Iben Browning predicted a greatly increased chance of the fault rupturing in early December 1990.
We had noticed occasional tremors before, but there were two only three weeks apart in September 1990.
They seemed to lend credence to the prediction, so a lot of preparation took place.
Nothing happened. Many people scorned Browning, but the false alarm helped put earthquake awareness in the news.
Many buildings were retrofitted and other measures taken.
Now, only our river cabin is in the moderate damage area of the fault. It is all steel construction and we carry earthquake insurance on it.
“Expect mass bridges to be torn”
Written as if by someone who didn’t particularly thrive in English class.
My best guess is that the “New Madrid fault” is part of a very old subduction zone, 1.9 billion years ago, predating the Atlantica supercontinent, that extends from New Orleans to the St. Laurence Seaway.
Earthquake maps indicate it runs up the Mississippi to the Ohio, briefly up the Ohio to the Wabash, north and then northeast along the Wabash, thru FT. Wayne, and then over to Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and then up and out the St. Laurents.
It wil be interesting to see follow on quakes when the New Madrid zone unloads that section and transfers the stress north and south along my presumptions of where the fault continues.
That bridge can be bolstered with heavy plate and welding within a week...
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