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[QUOTE="Ol'89r, post: 1329261, member: 17212"] I remember her oldguy. Cali with a K. What a piece of work she was. :coocoo: Foxforks. You are correct about Chicago. If the New Madrid goes off, Chicago would be devastated with all of its brick buildings. Masonry buildings don't do very well in an earthquake. The last time they had a quake on the New Madrid fault it made the Mississippi river run backwards for a few days. Of course, there were no skyscrapers back then so the human toll was not as great as it would be today. Here in California, most of the buildings have been retrofitted to rock and roll with the quakes rather than fall down. Some of the really tall skyscrapers are actually built on rollers. Most all of the brick buildings have already fallen down in previous quakes. Plus, here in Cali, most of the houses are stick built. They tend to move about and flex with the quakes rather than fall down. Also, there is a bigger danger of a tsunami on the East coast due to a large part of an island that is slipping and ready to sluff off and fall into the ocean. I can't remember the name of the island but they said if it falls into the ocean it could cause 20+ foot waves to hit New York City. Shaw. That is pretty much what happens before a major quake. As long as the faults are moving and readjusting, there are not any major quakes. As soon as the smaller quakes stop, the pressure starts to build and then over a two or three day period, we will start to get mag 4 or 5 quakes along the faults. These usually lead up to a 6 or 7 mag quake. The faults actually start to let loose slowly over a pierod of several days with rock crushing deep in the earth. They take a while to work to the surface. If you follow all of this stuff, earthquakes are pretty easy to predict. The USGS won't even try to predict earthquakes for fear of being wrong. Their theory is, if they predict an earthquake and it doen't happen, the public won't listen to them the next time. Better to let a bunch of people die than be wrong I guess. Earthquakes are just the planets way of letting us know who's really in charge. :nod: And it ain't us. :whoa: CORRECTION: We get 300 to 500+ earthquakes per week in California and Nevada, not per day. [/QUOTE]
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