>>>4.0 that’s NOTHING! We in California call that just a touch of flatulence from Gov. Moonbeam and his merry band of Socialists in the legislature...
4’s are usually ignored here.
It may be second nature to you Left-coasters... but it’s not a usual occurrence in Ohio.
True, but the geographic makeup is different so the waves of a smaller quake in the Midwest can cause just as much or more damage as a larger one in cali - and they tend to travel farther as there aren’t as many zones to break things up.
One of the reasons the Big madrid fault quake around Missouri in the 1800s rang bells in Boston.
If the 6.8 New Madrid quake of 1895 hit today, it would cause more damage than all of the California quakes since then combined. A lot of people live in that New Madrid red area.
It's not just the magnitude that counts. The area can be much more important. Kind of like a tornado compared to a hurricane.