[PAR35]

California faults are pikers compared to the one along the Mississippi River. I remember the scare stories that were put out in the early 1990s. They sold a lot of earthquake insurance in Tennessee and Mississippi back then.

Quake still hasn’t happened there.

[hanamizu]

California faults are pikers compared to the one along the Mississippi River.

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The quakes in the Midwest travel a lot farther than the California ones. The New Madrid quakes two hundred years ago rang church bells on the east coast.

In terms of destruction, in many Midwest cities, the older parts of town are made of brick. Brick buildings don’t play well with earthquakes.

[ridesthemiles]

THE MADRID FAULT-—HAD THE MISSISSIPPI RUNNING BACKWARDS