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To: streetpreacher
New Madrid and Hawai'i are both in the center of plates. Hawai'i is on a magma hotspot, but New Madrid seems to be the equivalent of the plate oil canning up and down. IMHO...
321 posted on 10/15/2006 1:03:49 PM PDT by null and void ("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
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To: null and void

There's an ancient failed rift where the continent began to split and stopped in the New Madrid Seismic Zone.


322 posted on 10/15/2006 1:04:29 PM PDT by Strategerist (Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves)
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To: null and void
New Madrid seems to be the equivalent of the plate oil canning up and down...

Can you explain what you mean by that in layman's terms? My friends and family live right on the epicenter next to the Mississippi.

327 posted on 10/15/2006 1:06:32 PM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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