Mega-earthquake is poised to rock five states in America's heartland in next 50 years

Daily Mail ^ | 7/26/24 | Stacey Liberatore

[week 71]

A mega earthquake could rock America's heartland - home to at least 11 million Americans - in the next 50 years.

Scientists say a little-known 150-mile-long stretch through Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois, has the conditions to generate a 6.0-plus magnitude quake.

The National Guard this week in St Louis conducted earthquake preparation drills that simulated a focused response to an 8.4 magnitude earthquake

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: earthquake; earthquakes; newmadridfault; projectedearthquake; quake; quakes

[week 71]

Don't have fear but - Be prepared - that's my motto.

[ealgeone]

For those on the east coast....if you don't have earthquake insurance on your home I strongly suggest you get it added.

The typical homeowner insurance policy doesn't have earthquake covered.

[reed13k]

As a kid growing up in SE Indiana we felt a tremor from a New Madrid shake in the early 70s...at first we thought it was Crane Naval Weapons Support Center because they used to blow up outdated battleship gunpowder and other munitions which we got a rumble from once in a while.

Story goes that when New Madrid had a big shake in the 1800s that the Mississippi ran backwards in at least one place after the quake...at least that’s the story I heard.

[caww]

I have Plan A, B and C for backup...and I know where to go if needed. Otherwise I’ll be meeting up with the Lord of Hosts!

[TheConservator]

6.0 Pffft

[Reno89519]

I’d be more concerned with an east coast quake in the New York City area. They had a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the area on August 10, 1884, felt from Virginia to Maine. More recently there was a 4.8 nearby in New Jersey on April 5th of this year.

[Reno89519]

Having grown up and lived out west and in Alaska, I’d like to think we’re prepared. I can’t imagine anything less than a 7 having much impact.

[beethovenfan]

Don’t worry - we’ll all be dead from GoreBull Warming before then.

[Musketeer]

No matter the millions one spends on a Bunker, that poor bastard will be sitting in a Porta-John ground zero at first strike.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Yeah, while I know all about it, and yeah, the potential for destruction is massive, and it likely will happen eventually, probability doesn't work like this:

'every year that goes by, the likelihood becomes greater,' according to Robbie Myers, an emergency coordinator with the Missouri Department of Safety.

[scott7278]

I can’t speak about the other states, but in Missouri, the New Madrid Fault is NOT “little known.”

[butlerweave]

Can’t always tell us tomorrow’s weather but can predict this , LOL

[oldasrocks]

We are building a concrete home. If that don’t trigger the New Madrid nothing will.

[Fuzz]

I did that too, but only after my two attempts failed because of a wolf with really strong lungs.

[scott7278]

They’ll be right eventually. It may be 500 years down the road, though.

[Tom Tetroxide]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%931812_New_Madrid_earthquakes

[Wuli]

Maybe will, maybe won’t.

Predicting earthquakes is still one of least definite branches of science.

[Deaf Smith]

Been a number of earth quakes 14 miles east of Snyder (Texas, y’all) today and in the past 3 days.

Biggest was a 5.1 ‘bout 7+ hours ago.

Quakes are shallow by 3-6 km depth.

Reason? A series of oil field waste disposal wells injecting most likely into salt domes and caps.

[zeestephen]

Re: "Mississippi River ran backwards..."

Also, the 8.2 New Madrid quake in 1811 caused church bells in Boston, 1,200 miles away, to sway back and forth and chime.

Good story, which I heard in Geology class in the 1960s.

Verifiable? I have no idea.

[HYPOCRACY]

https://youtu.be/t7CGkuLEs5U?feature=shared