cmotherofpirl Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 If you check the link posted, there was 1 quake and 3 aftershocks so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LouisvilleFan Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 (edited) [quote name='Pio Nono' post='1502563' date='Apr 18 2008, 11:09 AM']If this is "the one" that they've been predicting for years, then it's kind of anti-climactic.[/quote] Definitely not. If you want to see what the New Madrid fault is capable of, check out the [url="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/10_largest_us.php"]20 largest[/url] earthquakes in US history. Three of them occurred within three months of each other from 1811-1812 at New Madrid, MO. Hardly anybody lived in that area of the country then and the nearest cities were far enough away to suffer only minor damage (and I doubt even St. Louis was more than 50,000 people back then). It would be a very different story today, though. In other words, imagine three earthquakes hitting mid-America, each between 100 and 1,000 times worse than today's (the Richter scale is exponential, so a 6.4 is ten times worse than a 5.4). That would put the fear of God in some folks. Edited April 18, 2008 by LouisvilleFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 apparently it was felt here in georgia as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birgitta Noel Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Felt it here in Central IL and just had another (or an aftershock, not sure how they differentiate) just now at 10:17am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 [quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1502573' date='Apr 18 2008, 10:38 AM'][url="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/"]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/[/url][/quote] ooooh. i like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 who needs an alarm clock good to hear everyone is ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Does it seem like they all happen at 4am? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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