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The New Madrid Seismic Zone
- slyrus 4y agoAll my daydreams are disasters.
- rickbradley 4y agoShe's the one I think I love.
- gumboshoes 4y agoRivers burn and run backwards.
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- idlewords 4y agoI wrote a thing about touring this place with geologists a few years back: https://idlewords.com/2015/07/confronting_new_madrid.htm https://idlewords.com/2015/07/confronting_new_madrid.htm
- pao 4y agoPronounced MAD-rid.
- pezezin 4y agoNo, pronounced Madrizzzz (read the Z as the English th in "thousand")
- vibrio 4y agoCorrect. Now do Cairo.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoCalais is another good one.
- vibrio 4y agoWe can throw in Vienna also (VY-enna).
- Kon-Peki 4y agoYou talking about KAY-roh Illinois?
- SystemOut 4y agoWhen I was a freshman at Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri S&T) this guy, Iben Browning, predicted that there would be a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault line in December. I think a few schools even closed for the day in the area because some parents were so freaked out about it. It was just the craziest scene that people believed that this nut job could actually predict an earthquake.
- guidoism 4y agoHeh, I was in middle school in Murray KY at the time.
- tptacek 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iben_Browning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iben_Browning There's an Uncle Tupelo song about this, conveniently named. https://genius.com/Uncle-tupelo-new-madrid-lyrics https://genius.com/Uncle-tupelo-new-madrid-lyrics
- jonstewart 4y agoThere was a math professor at Iowa State University who advocated blowing up the moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Abian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Abian
- guidoism 4y agoI grew up around here. In 1990 a scientist (Dr. Browning) predicted there would be a major earthquake on a certain day and most parents kept their kids home from school. My dad, a geophysicist, said the guy was a quack so I had to goto school. It was practically empty that day.
- konraditurbe 4y agoI live in Madrid, Spain, a zone not prone to any earthquakes and the title startled me quite a bit.
- pezezin 4y agoI don't live in Madrid but I'm from Spain and the title confused me a lot xD
- bee_rider 4y agoHmm, yeah now sure what goes into making a “seismic zone” but I guess making a new one for a city would be pretty catastrophic!
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- MichaelZuo 4y agoIt does make me wonder how a brand new seismic zone would form though in an unexpected place like Madrid, Spain.
- hcrisp 4y agoThe last memorable earthquake in the Midwest was the 5.2 "tremor" of 2008 [0] just north of the New Madrid fault. It was felt as far away as Georgia and Nebraska. I recall a scientist quoted as saying that the area "rung like a bell" because it occurred in the stable interior craton. It caused some minor damage like a few bricks falling off a couple buildings. I was working in a 2nd story building and felt the the upper cabinet of my office vibrate a little. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Illinois_earthquake https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Illinois_earthquake
- michaelcampbell 4y agoAs someone with extended family living in SE Missouri, I can say this is VERY well known to them. I've seen a coffee table book one of them had with black/white pictures of some of the destruction from the quake there that spawned Reelfoot Lake, and it was enough to give one pause.
- mikewarot 4y agoI'm just across the border from Chicago in Indiana.... and if New Madrid goes off, there is a small but non-zero chance my house will fall off its piers. (We have no basement/foundation) Mitigating this risk is something I can't begin to afford.