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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I do not know about Long Valley, but I DO keep a close watch for any info on Yellowstone activity.
An eruption of that caldera could pretty much end America as we know it, but Obambie is just as bad.
With the Marxist in charge, America may be gone by 2012.

My other area of interest is the New Madrid fault, as it runs through former home location (Memphis).
One thing that really troubles me is that the more recent tall buildings (1960+)are all concrete, with no structural steel.
Remember, the last big earthquake (1812) caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Here is an interesting site, http://newmadridearthquake.com/
They have posted info on the Japan quake.


6 posted on 03/13/2011 1:43:22 AM PST by AlexW
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To: AlexW

Its been speculated that an increase of drilling around Arkansas has increased earthquake activity, kinda makes me wonder if Obamabie is pushing for an excessive amount of drilling there around the New Madrid Fault so as to make it happen.

I have absolutely no doubts he wants panic, ruin, desperation, hopelessness just so he can strut in and become the Messiah.


7 posted on 03/13/2011 1:47:07 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("These people are either at your neck or at your knees" A quote by Winston Churchill)
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To: AlexW
The New Madrid quake also continued to rumble and tumble for two years. The land to the North all the way to Michigan rose as well ~ and drained. Earlier Indiana and much of Illinois had been flooded most of the year. Jefferson was going to give the area to the Indians since it was difficult to imagine using it for anything but small plot farming and hunting.

In a worst case scenario the entire fault structure from New Orleans to Detroit could move.

31 posted on 03/13/2011 5:39:25 AM PDT by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: AlexW
One thing that really troubles me is that the more recent tall buildings (1960+)are all concrete, with no structural steel.

Rebar is highly structural when encapsulated in concrete.

33 posted on 03/13/2011 6:19:55 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: AlexW

“One thing that really troubles me is that the more recent tall buildings (1960+)are all concrete, with no structural steel.”

You may be looking at buildings appearing to be cement or masonry. But I think there is a steel framework, onto which the outer surface is attached.

In California, where we have history with quakes, a big effort went into reinforcing old masonry buildings.

(I am talking about 100+ year old red brick buildings, which in fact were originally not reinforced.)


56 posted on 03/13/2011 2:58:06 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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