[AlexW]

I am from Memphis, and remember the big scare back in the 80s?.
The big seismologist predictor, forgot his name, predicted a massive quake on the New Madrid fault.
I remember my mother tying a rope around the water heater in the attic, and securing other fragile things.
Of course, I know the history and creation of Realfoot lake,
when the Mississippi flowed north, as a result of the New Madrid quake.

It recently saw something in a news story that suggested
that the New Madrid fault is , for better terms, dissolving, melting away, or healing itself, and may soon not even be listed as a real fault.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

They also call it the Reelfoot fault.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

[Centurion2000]

It recently saw something in a news story that suggested that the New Madrid fault is , for better terms, dissolving, melting away, or healing itself, and may soon not even be listed as a real fault.

Alex, No way. This sucker's been around since the Cambrian Era of geologic history.

Some interesting papers on the new madrid fault.

http://quake.ualr.edu/public/nmfz.htm

http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/lib/enigma.htm

Last paper also cites prehistoric quakes from 1400 AD, 900AD and 500AD or so.