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Well,we did experience a minor quake a year or two ago;I remember being awakened thinking it was a nightmare but the bed continued to shake.Some items were shaken off shelves,cracks appeared in the walls,etc.In the early 70s a tremor caused "eyebrows" and hillside slippages one afternoon,and there have been a couple measured but unfelt by most people here ,smaller quakes.

I think the January 2010 Massachusetts quake is more of a concern to the current White House residents.

“hey, hey, HEY! wait a minute... i live in that red zone part of Indiana. i have to worry about ice in the winter and tornadoes in the summer. now i have to worry about the EARTHQUAKE FROM HELL? not cool.”

LOL. Exactly my reaction. About 5 years after we started living here in East Central Missouri, I was talking about how glad I was we didn't live in Florida or California due to hurricanes and earthquakes.

Then hubby told me all about the New Madrid Fault, and the big one back in the 1800s. I asked him if he knew that before we moved here. He said yep.

I told him I would never have moved here if I had known about it beforehand. The fault is a very active fault, but the quakes are usually very small, so it doesn't get all the attention of California.

The old brick buildings in St. Louis can not withstand a big quake. Buildings that were built in the 1980’s started using technology designed to come through a large quake.

The poor delta areas will likely not have as many deaths and injuries as St. Louis, where a type of liquification will be a factor, in addition to all the older buildings and large population.

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.