Posted on 11/20/2008 7:10:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) People in a vast seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United States would face catastrophic damage if a major earthquake struck there and should ensure that builders keep that risk in mind, a government report said on Thursday.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said if earthquakes strike in what geologists define as the New Madrid Seismic Zone, they would cause "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States."
FEMA predicted a large earthquake would cause "widespread and catastrophic physical damage" across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee -- home to some 44 million people.
Tennessee is likely to be hardest hit, according to the study that sought to gauge the impact of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in order to guide the government's response.
In Tennessee alone, it forecast hundreds of collapsed bridges, tens of thousands of severely damaged buildings and a half a million households without water.
Transportation systems and hospitals would be wrecked, and police and fire departments impaired, the study said.
The zone, named for the town of New Madrid in Missouri's southeast corner, is subject to frequent mild earthquakes.
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Overall in the grand scheme of things, and this will be shown over time, natural disasters are a bigger threat to this country than terorrist attacks.
California/Mexico border half way between Yuma and San Diego.Tijuana.
The line of quakes flows from the Sea of Cortez up through the Salton Sea towards Indio then towards Beaumont and up the San Andreas fault.
And hundreds of thousands of toppled trailers!
Name the five deadliest, though...
You said — “You know what - If GOD wants the NM Fault to go - then it will.”
What fault is in New Mexico???
....FEMA wants people to be prepared for a catastrophe......
This comes up from time to time. On a previous iteration, I took FEMA earthquake damage assessment training the thinking being that teams would be needed to come in to Memphis from outside because those there would be in distress.
I have heard nothing back at all since.
A huge asteroid could fall in the Mississippi River and create the Mississippi Lake which it take the Mississippi River 1000 years to fill, but nobody would notice if it weren’t for the Government telling us to beware.
A huge asteroid could fall in the Mississippi River and create the Mississippi Lake which it take the Mississippi River 1000 years to fill,
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That offering might qualify as a good movie script for SciFi or the History Channel to run on a disaster movies marathon weekend.. I don’t think I’ve seen the Mississippi lake asteroid angle before.. ;-)
Is it cold up there?
It's warmed up to -8
What about Ohio?
FYI - I’ve been a good boy lately.
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