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Government warns of "catastrophic" U.S. quake (FEMA & the New Madrid Seismic Zone)
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 11/20/08 | Carey Gillam

Posted on 11/20/2008 7:10:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: ladyjane
It’s politically correct to talk about earthquakes and global warming. Not PC to talk about a terrorist attack.

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.

81 posted on 11/20/2008 9:36:54 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: concerned about politics

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.


82 posted on 11/21/2008 4:45:23 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: NormsRevenge
"In Tennessee alone, it forecast hundreds of collapsed bridges, tens of thousands of severely damaged buildings and a half a million households without water..."

And hundreds of thousands of toppled trailers!

83 posted on 11/21/2008 11:39:28 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: bobjam
"Of the five most powerful earthquakes to strike the United States, none of them occurred in California (think New Madrid, Charleston, Good Friday, etc.)"

Name the five deadliest, though...

84 posted on 11/21/2008 11:40:18 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: TheBattman

You said — “You know what - If GOD wants the NM Fault to go - then it will.”

What fault is in New Mexico???


85 posted on 11/21/2008 11:46:12 AM PST by Star Traveler
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To: ladyjane

....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.


86 posted on 11/21/2008 11:46:12 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Save America......... put out lots of waferin)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


87 posted on 11/21/2008 11:49:10 AM PST by RightWhale (Exxon Suxx)
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To: RightWhale

A huge asteroid could fall in the Mississippi River and create the Mississippi Lake which it take the Mississippi River 1000 years to fill,

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?


88 posted on 11/21/2008 12:24:05 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: NormsRevenge
Is it cold up there?

It's warmed up to -8

89 posted on 11/21/2008 2:02:34 PM PST by RightWhale (Exxon Suxx)
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To: NormsRevenge

What about Ohio?


90 posted on 11/21/2008 2:03:42 PM PST by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: ladyjane

FYI - I’ve been a good boy lately.


91 posted on 11/21/2008 9:23:38 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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