I've stopped in Baker, and it's NOT known for massive amounts of water. Alien fresh jerky, on the other hand...
Posted on 07/26/2024 2:59:42 PM PDT by week 71
As the prophecy hath foretold.
The big quake was felt by President Madison at the White House, and made church bells ring in Boston. That is one hell of a quake
And what date and time is Jesus coming back? /s
With respect to this, I think they had a 7.5 magnitude back in 1811, the New Madrid Earthquakes. So my first thought was: Sure. That, or more will happen someday..
Kind of like when I heard Trump was shot. My pulse didn't even flicker, I was that un-suprised.
Of course, we also going to have another 1859 Carrington Event or worse...too someday. Could happen right now, or in 300 years, but it is going to happen. There isn't even any doubt.
You are correct. If the same magnitude quake hits the New Madrid today that hit in 1811/1812, a lot more than 11 million people will die. That quake will affect more than those states as bells rung as far away as Boston, and the tremors were felt all the way to the eastern seaboard.
So....we have the global swelling/firmament change hysterics crowd to go with the global warming/climate change hysterics crowd? How perfect is that!
The oft cited New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 were actually part of a major earthquake storm that lasted over half a year. The 3 biggest quakes were around 8.0 (estimates vary), but a real kicker is the geology that propagates the waves very long distances. In a large region around the faults, liquefaction of the sedimentary soils is also a huge problem in a big quake, creating all sorts of bizarre and often deadly effects.
What bothers me most, as I live in the region, is the prospect of another repeat series of quakes lasting several months. Getting aid into a large area when the roads, runways, railways, and even the rivers* are repeatedly disrupted will be a horrific problem when, not if, an encore performance occurs.
*Oh, yeah, the entire system of locks and dams and levees on rivers within, I’d say, 200 miles of New Madrid, MO, will likely be destroyed in a big quake. That alone is a truly epic disaster... If it occurs when rivers are high, it’s even worse.
They stopped fracking in north OK because they were sure it was causing earthquakes in Kansas.
Funny coincidence about that, about 4 years ago (after the fracking supposedly stopped) there was a series of small earthquakes in a relatively small area in east Wichita mostly within a square mile area. In the area affected is the estate of some very notorious (in some circles) very wealthy people.
My conspiracy theory friends figured they were blasting and tunneling for their underground bunker.
Unpossible. An earthquake of that size could cause the Mississippi to flow backwards and we all know that can’t happen.
I've stopped in Baker, and it's NOT known for massive amounts of water. Alien fresh jerky, on the other hand...
Their estimates is just a guess. The New Madrid fault could let loose tomorrow or not for 500 years.
A big EMP like the Carrington Event, only bigger, would be very bad for this country. We would become 3rd worlders very quickly.
Can we bribe the earthquake to level Chicago?
Oh yes.
“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.” That is correct.
There is some evidence of past large quake series in the region, and the intervals look like around 500 years for the big ones. As it’s been a bit over 200 years since the last big series of shakes, 300 years until the next biggie (7.5 - 8?) seems reasonable, but +/- 200 years is not an unreasonable window.
OTOH, the way this works, something lesser, say, a series topping out @ 6.7, could occur almost any time now. In these soils / this geography, and with structures not built to take it, including dams, levees, bridges, etc., depending on time of year, several thousand dead from the quakes themselves is not an unreasonable estimate, and double that from inability of aid to get in, after the initial big quake(s). :-(
In Western Kentucky there is an area called The Land Between the Lakes. There are two Lakes formed by dams that create a long strip of land for Recreation on the Lakes. Were an earthquake to breach those dams those lakes would send an immense amount of water South for a very long way. Hard to imagine the damage that would occur.
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