New Madrid, San Andreas, and Yellowstone are all overdue. What if they all went at once?
Yellowstone release energy every day like clockwork, if the boiling pots stopped for say 500 years would be concerned.
New Madrid has had large for what it earthquakes for at least 400 years. San Andreas, like its virtual city scape, is targeted at its worthless neighbors.
The one I’m most concerned about is the Cascadia Subduction Zone. That could kill a lot of people in the Pacific NW.
You nail something I’ve been thinking about for awhile.
I can absolutely see that scenario play out.
I'd say we all run outside and start whooping and waving our hats like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove.
That’d make an interesting movie.
Then the world will be a far better place, for the USA, the Great Satan that is the fountain head of capitalist exploitation, racism and the despoliation of the environment will be no more.
If the Reelfoot Rift collapsed in something approaching 8.0 and took the linked Wabash zone with it, it would change the course of this nation, not to mention the course of the Miss, Ohio, Tenn, Missouri, and other lesser rivers.
Imagine the Missouri and the Mississippi simply rushing through the debris of St. Louis and the Arch.
The only good news is that New Madrid has a history of winding up and winding down over about a year's span (1811-1812, and then similar clusters, according to Wiki, around 1450, 900, and 300AD). We might get some warning.
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Next week's poker game is off - definitely.
“whoopee, we’re all gonna die”.