Is Middle America Due For a Huge Earthquake?

The Atlantic ^ | June 23, 2016 | Peter Brennan

[C19fan]

As I drove across the I-40 bridge into Memphis, I was reassured: chances were slim that a massive earthquake would wrest the road from its supports, and plunge me more than a hundred feet into the murky Mississippi. Thanks to a recently completed $260 million seismic retrofit, the bridge—a chokepoint for traffic in the central U.S.—is now fortified. It’s also decked out with strong-motion accelerometers and bookended by borehole seismometers to record convulsions in the earth.

[RickGee]

To me the most astonishing thing about the article was how the author felt he had to throw in politics into a “science” article. He attacks the “right-wing” and drags in Alex Jones and Infowars, etc.

I guess he has to show his bosses that he’s still on their plantation, even though he has visited middle America.

Rick

[sportutegrl]

Some people will do anything to get away from Arkansas.

[servantboy777]

Good grief y’all...it could be another 20, 50, 1000 years.

[Ozark Tom]

One detail left out of the earthquake/bridge conundrum is consideration of the approaches to the actual bridge structure. Many of the bridges will survive and still be unusable until the access on each end is rebuilt.

[meatloaf]

Do I need to explain it to you?

[samtheman]

:)

[vetvetdoug]

The bridge may survive the initial earthquake but when the Memphians riot and get out of control like they have in the past, the bridge will be useless and impassable.