[Strategerist]

Important to note that the New Madrid Seismic Zone has probably gotten too much hype, and the size of those quakes wasn't nearly as large as once thought. Wabash Valley may in fact be more dangerous.

[kingattax]

[Centurion2000]

"These are changes we can measure with instruments, but we can't sense them as humans," he said. "Many people think that animals sense atmospheric changes. You always get stories about Rover going bananas right before an earthquake. But until Rover learns to tell us what he's barking about, we won't be able to employ animals in any predictive way.

How about this ... when the dogs, cats and birds in multiple locations all go ape at once ... somethings up ... sound an alert for possible bad news.

[gogov]

She's still rocking there.

[onedoug]

New Madrid Seismic Zone Maps

Interesting.

[MarkeyD]

I grew up in Evansville. Back in the 70’s we had an earthquake large enough to knock most of the chimneys off in my neighborhood. I’m surprised there haven’t been more.

[swmobuffalo]

“Wyssession, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences”

Apparently he doesn’t put much stock in eye witness accounts of the time of the 1811-1812 New Madrid quake.

[AmusedBystander]

My grandfather was a coal miner in various Southern Illinois mines and used to tell about all the faults and the huge movements along of some of those from the past.