[Just another Joe]

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A large quake on the New Madrid fault would be devastating to Missouri.

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A large one would not only devastate MO, it would hit Ill., Ky., Tenn., Ark., and IIRC, the last one rang church bells in Boston. The whole area was pretty sparsely populated back then, tho, not like today. A major quake would be a disaster. Planning should have been in place long before now. It's not IF one hits, it's WHEN one hits. The New Madrid fault system isn't like the California type faults and the geology is different. MO. has a lot of Karst geology and that needs to be studied as to its stability in major quakes. MO. DNR had out a brochure a few years back about the possible effects on ST. Louis and Memphis, IIRC, but I don't know if anything has been looked at recently.