New Madrid Fault, When Will It Snap? on Blog Radio 4/5

Gee...I hope it doesn't happen this afternoon when I drive through there!

New Madrid won't snap until after the big ones in Cali.

shown that years ago

Complete BS

welllllllllllllllllllll since my butt resides atop the New Madrid Fault lets hope

Zetas wrong again!!!!

actually I have been waiting for it for years... would really like to move out of this area very soon

New Madrid is the mother of all faults

It will eventually let go ... but NOT WHERE most expect it!!

If you actually look at the big picture of the split in the plates the area down in the MO/AR area remains active and to a certain extent "fluid". The area up in the Quebec area (think St. Lawrence Rift Zone) also remains fluid.

The area that is COMPLETELY LOCKED and has been for several centuries at least is that area in between ... from S. Illinois up to and partially through Lake Ontario!!

WHERE exactly is this locked area?

Well it clearly passes down much of the length of Lake Erie, note the swarms out in the lake east of Cleveland since they started deep well injections of chemical wastes there years ago - which probably are lubricating the fault somewhat.

It probably exits Lake Erie somewhere around the Niagra Gorge and heads into Lake Ontario which would put it on a nearly direct NE line to connect up the St. Lawrence Rift Zone (think St. Lawrence River as being a fairly accurate representation of that rift zone).

Working back to the West the major L. Erie fault comes ashore not far from downtown Cleveland from where a series of faults take it to an area of NW Ohio where small quakes while not common are not rare either. Diagonal across Indiana towards SW Illinois where the New Madrid Fault is known to be, completes the description of the area that is LOCKED.

WHEN will that locked area give way? Well it has held for at least hundreds of years so it may not be anywhere in our or even our grandchildren's lifetimes.

WHEN that locked section does give way though it probably will make the 5 earthquakes that made up the series call the New Madrid Earthquake look like a warm up event!! (most reports say 4 EQ's in that series, which happened over almost two months, but that is because they count the TWO that occured on the last day, separated by several hours each of which was bigger than any of the preceeding 3, as ONE).

OH ... and of course Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo and Indianapolis do NOT have building codes that require earthquake protection to be built into their buildings(Toronto too?).

Sometime soon...very soon.

...not really. More of the "greys" now begging for attention. This is unbelievable, the amount of alarmists out there. Maybe finding a CREATIVE hobby aside from 'reading' message boards is an answer; or, just a lil., a tiny bit of research...

...like this, from an EIGHTH GRADE CLASS:

The average time from one 1811-sized event to the next is probably much more than 500 years. I would not expect any earthquakes to be larger than 1811-1812, and I would not expect such earthquakes to occur for another couple of hundred years. Seismologists at the University of Memphis figure that there is only a 3-4% chance of a magnitude 8 earthquake along the New Madrid seismic zone within the next 50 years. In other words a big earthquake is NOT overdue.

[link to www.soest.hawaii.edu]

...hey Nancy, how about "channeling" Alaska, I'd love to know the greys response to this.... typical, how the SAN ANDREAS FAULT IS 150 YEARS OVERDUE, IT'S RESEARCHED, EVEN TALKED ABOUT IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, BUT THE GREYS, THEY HAVE TO BE "DIFFERENT" IN THEIR FATALISMS -- TRY 3-4% FOR THE NEW MADRID GREYS, A LITTLE OFF.

Small Ark. earthquakes could be warning

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