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Originally Posted by frazod
The last New Madrid quakes made church bells ring as far away as Boston. There are no mountains to contain the effects, so they just go on and on. These quakes tend to happen approximately every 300 years, and it's been 200 years since the last one. An 8.0 magnitude quake in that area would lay waste to much of the midwest and economically cripple the country in a way we'd probably not recover from.
And it will happen again. Hopefully not in our lifetimes.
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the city's of memphis and stl would be leveled because of mostly brick construction. it will reverse the flow of the mississipi and missouri rivers. its been minorly active recently ( around 4.0 quakes) but thats a good thing, its when it has time to build up a bunch of energy before it snaps that causes the big ones.
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