Mississippi Delta earthquake: America's Haiti waiting to happen?

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | January 17, 2010 | Suzi Parker

[LucyJo]

Scientists predict a Haiti-magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault during the next 50 years. The fault runs under the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest parts of the US.

[muawiyah]

Wal-Mart's corporate policy for siting new stores used to be to select old trailer parks. Most had a central location, all the main roads ran there, and, the land was cheap.

Wal-Mart inherited the tornados.

[muawiyah]

We were standing on top of one of those hills close to the Carlsbad CA airport. We looked over to the NE and there were SEVERAL regular tornados moving in on Camp Pendleton.

I did not feel safe. A tornado is like thunder, if you are in range you can be hit so fast you won't believe it.

[Quix]

Perhaps when the PTB are collecting stats on your visitors from their little hidden bots.

[muawiyah]

Yes, and if you live over near Seymour ~ or ~ Columbus Indiana ~ anywhere in the range of the Muscatatuck river YOU WILL SEE YOUR DIRT TURN TO MUD.

You will sink in over your head. Sand wells will spout sand. Bon Ami wells will spout Bon Ami (powdered feldspar).

Worse, the ancient volcano under Chestnut Ridge might spring to life.

Yup, volcanoes in the region only you don't usually see them ~ but the feldspar deposit in Jennings County was puffed out the volcano in Jackson County.

There are still HOT SPRINGS active around the perimeter. Some of the earliest permanent settlements in the area were made ON TOP OF the hotsprings. That was about 14,000 years back. Vast deposits of Clovis points in the neighborhood, with a number of them covered over with major deposits of Early Woodland Culture points.

Think about what was heating up the rock to turn it into flint around there.

Then, there's the Ohio River ~ it has flooded that far North, on top of all the other floods.

So, here's your dangers:

A. Earthquake

B. Flood

C. Hurricane (yup, them too)

D. Tornado

E. Blizzards

F. Glaciers return

G. Volcano

H. More stuff

There are few other places on Earth more at risk than Amaroogia (as we call it) ~ there and the Ten Acres!

I've seen more house trailers mounted on pontoons in this part of the country than everywhere else. Many people are aware of the risk and have taken appropriate action.

[mad_as_he$$]

Don't forget roads, water, bridges and sewers.

[muawiyah]

Unlike South Texas, the sewers in most of the Midwest rest in glacial till. Sure, they'll get busted up in places, but they are readily replaced. The roads will probably fall apart. Since there's no "dry season/wet season" dichotomy there will, in fact, be little problem in providing sufficient drinking water in the region.

Bridges are another matter ~ a piece of history is in order. Way back when Hurricane Hazel decided to rain on Indiana for a month almost all the culverts in Marion County Indiana washed out. That was the primary bridging method in those days, and, if you look closely, it is still the primary bridging method ~ and not just there but all over the Midwest.

Citizen militia could probably do manual labor and replace enough culverts with D-handle shovels and strong backs to have traffic up and running in days.

In the meantime it is probably wise to purchase a hand operated pump for a well, and to get a well drilled if you haven't done so, or haven't used it in many years.

[CodeToad]

Every now and then a web server is just too busy to respond and the resulting error message doesn’t fit the situation. Usually nothing to worry about.

[madamemayhem]

i’m not that close to seymor or columbus. i am sort of between bloomington and french lick.

[muawiyah]

You're in good shape. On the other hand did you ever wonder why there are HOT SPRINGS, hot sulphur springs, in that area?

Sure, it was more active a hundred million years ago, but think about how close you are to that big crack in the Earth called the Wabash, and how close the Carmel Fault is to that part of the country.

Last little quake on that fault (about 5 years back) knocked cracks into stone structures throughout Monroe county.

When the mantle oozes and cracks form, a certain type of volcano can work its way to the top through old vents ~ really ancient vents too!

There's a volcano East of the Hills of Brown County and West of the HIlls of Brown County. They're old but they are still chugging!

[LucyJo]

"BTW did you know the Mississippi River ran backwards for sometime after the big one on the New Madrid."

Yes, I had heard that. I wouldn't want to have been around to see it. Don't even want to think about having been in a boat on the Mississip when it hit!

[Travis McGee]

Danke.

[Joya]

interesting article

http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/liquefaction.htm