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NEW 3.0 EARTHQUAKE IN ARKANSAS NEW MADRID FAULT LINE 8 Quakes in total TODAY.
New Madrid Earthquake ^ | October 10, 2010

Posted on 10/10/2010 5:13:53 PM PDT by SumProVita

Region: ARKANSAS Geographic coordinates: 35.322N, 92.332W Magnitude: 3.0 M Depth: 4 km Universal Time (UTC): 10 Oct 2010 12:48:23

(Excerpt) Read more at newmadridearthquake.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: arkansas; catastrophism; earthquake; eq; newmadrid; newmadridquake; prep; quake; quakes
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To: BobL

In Palm Beach?


41 posted on 10/10/2010 6:02:22 PM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: Non-Sequitur

“A year or two ago seismologists from Northwestern, Purdue, and the University of Missouri suggested that the New Madrid Fault is actually shutting down.”

“The conclusions by Stein and co-investigator Mian Lu, professor of geological sciences at the University of Missouri, are controversial.

While acknowledging that Stein’s GPS measurements are accurate and important, researchers at the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis say it’s overly simplistic to interpret them as meaning the fault system has shut down.

“It’s one piece of data,” said Chuck Langston, director of the Memphis center.

Despite the lack of movement, the historical record for New Madrid is clear, he said. Every 400 to 500 years, the fault zone has produced huge earthquakes. In addition to the 1811-12 shocks, which were estimated to have magnitudes of up to 7.8, researchers have found geologic evidence of similarly large quakes in the New Madrid zone around the years 1450 and 900 A.D. and as far back as 2350 B.C.

Given the slow pace of geologic changes, Langston questions how a fault zone that produced such powerful quakes only two centuries ago could undergo such a dramatic transformation so quickly.

“It just doesn’t work that way,” he said. “It takes hundreds of thousands of years for the Earth to do something — either start up or shut off.”

In 2006, a panel of experts convened by the U.S. Geological Survey to assess earthquake hazards in the eastern half of the nation evaluated the GPS data on which Stein bases his conclusions. The panel did not find the data to be a “convincing reason” to downgrade the seismic hazard in the New Madrid zone, a USGS report says.”

http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/scientists-debate-if-new-madrid-fault-dead-or-just-sleeping


42 posted on 10/10/2010 6:08:24 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: SumProVita

I’m sure it’s scary for you but here in California that probably qouldn’t cause a raised eyebrow.

When I lived in OK, iwas frequently told how being in eartquake country would be to scary.

Just laughed and said I seen plenty of tornadoes.

life comes with risks


43 posted on 10/10/2010 6:15:17 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: muawiyah

The Ouchitas are south of Little Rock and the Ozarks are north. Guy, Arkansas is about 40 miles north of Little Rock. The Arkansas River divides the two mountain chains.


44 posted on 10/10/2010 6:19:07 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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To: Vendome
Just laughed and said I seen plenty of tornadoes.

I work for and architectural firm about 200 miles NE of Little Rock smack dab in Zone 3. We have to design for both earthquakes and tornadoes.

45 posted on 10/10/2010 6:21:11 PM PDT by Walmartian
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To: Arkansas Tider

Good for tourism.


46 posted on 10/10/2010 6:22:22 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: namvolunteer
A 3.O magnitude earthquake is very small.

You are more than correct. The maximum displacement of a 3.0 earthquake is 1 mm. I'm more that a little dubious of how they detected that 4 km down. Maybe they are referring to the surface displacement.

47 posted on 10/10/2010 6:24:52 PM PDT by InMemoriam
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To: Vendome

Actually, I’m not scared. I lived in CA for a time and got used to frequent tremors. I’ve lived through tornadoes.

HOWEVER, this fault zone has a potential to wreak huge damage, take many lives and.... we know we cannot count on the Federal gov’t to do much. Therefore people need to be prepared.

Life does come with risks. That’s why God gave us common sense. ;-)


48 posted on 10/10/2010 6:25:20 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Rebelbase
... will have effects nationwide. Interstate/state highway bridges over major rivers, oil and natural gas lines, electrical transmission lines and communication lines are vulnerable.

Oil and natural gas lines would be the worst... if it happens, hope it's BEFORE winter...

49 posted on 10/10/2010 6:29:55 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2604837/posts)
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To: Walmartian

Yeah, I’m pretty sure most places are fine to about 4.5.

If 1811 repeats and 8.0 ensues that’s different for everyone even here in CA and I live 7 miles off San andreas

Still, I’m midwest on sedimentary it would way worse than here.

like shifting sand as opposed shaking granite.

I shudder and my mom llives in Tulsa


50 posted on 10/10/2010 6:30:37 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: justsaynomore

51 posted on 10/10/2010 6:35:30 PM PDT by mikrofon (Time for some No-fault insurance.)
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To: SumProVita

floods and tornadoes in Ok and trying drive through areas I thought were high ground. Seeing the roofs of card floating was weird.

never saw the guard for looting patrols.

Okies aint stoopid enough to wait for fed.

thatls why they are Sooners.


52 posted on 10/10/2010 6:35:33 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: SumProVita

Chief Tecumseh’s revenge.


53 posted on 10/10/2010 6:36:19 PM PDT by Rannug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-qH02g4DLI)
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To: SumProVita

When “that one” goes, taking down Memphis ... you’ll never hear about Katrina again. This is a “nuclear” Katrina ticking over there near the Mississippi. Glad I moved away. Talk about an unprepared situation just waiting to “happen”.


54 posted on 10/10/2010 6:37:47 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (You are just jealous because the voices aren't talking to YOU!)
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To: SumProVita

From your link...very interesting....

Today, the New Madrid fault zone, which is active (continuing to move), holds the highest earthquake risk in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Because of its geologic structure based in sedimentary rock, the damage it can cause is up to twenty times GREATER than those on the West Coast.

In the winter of 1811–12, a series of powerful earthquakes rocked the Mississippi River Valley. The ground shook so violently that it rang church bells a thousand miles away in Boston.


55 posted on 10/10/2010 6:46:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: Vendome

“Okies aint stoopid enough to wait for fed.

thatls why they are Sooners.”

Yep! That’s why we here in Tennessee are known as the Volunteers! During the massive Nashville floods earlier this year, we got busy and cleaned up too. Lots of people who had no/little damage volunteered to help others. Everyone worked together....and I didn’t hear any whining. We KNOW government is not reliable....so we just DO what is needed.


56 posted on 10/10/2010 6:46:22 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: caww

Yes, it was pretty powerful. It made the Mississippi River run backwards and created a new lake as well....Reelfoot Lake....where bald eagles nest now.


57 posted on 10/10/2010 6:50:17 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Vendome

My late wife was an Oklahoma State grad. She always referred to the Sooners as the “land thieves”.


58 posted on 10/10/2010 6:51:08 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: caww

. . and the Mississippi River ran backwards for a time and a large lake (Reelfoot) was formed. Log structures had a lot more “give” to them than do the steel and concrete ones that weren’t built to accommodate quakes. More houses now and structures in general than back in the 1800’s.


59 posted on 10/10/2010 6:52:18 PM PDT by Twinkie (TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT!)
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To: SumProVita

That’s hugely destructive for the Mississippi to run backwards!

I checked the maps...it would indeed cover a wide area...and those posting the ground is like sand would make the destruction today all the worse.


60 posted on 10/10/2010 6:56:53 PM PDT by caww
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