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New Madrid Fault Zone

JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
Out of the frying pan into the fire...

[url]http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/index.htm[/url]

[url]http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Maps/90-36.html[/url]

[url]http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/public/facts_long.shtml[/url]

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Fault_Zone[/url]

Comments

  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Hey, sounds like fun!
    Meanwhile, a small island not too far from here is [url=http://news.google.co.nz/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=raoul+eruption&btnG=Search+News]going boom[/url]!
  • PSI-KILLERPSI-KILLER Needs help
    Jack maybe it is following you around whatever it is. just kidding..

    I woudn't worry to much your not surrounded by skyscrapers.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]Hey, sounds like fun!
    Meanwhile, a small island not too far from here is [url=http://news.google.co.nz/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=raoul+eruption&btnG=Search+News]going boom[/url]! [/B][/QUOTE]

    That's gotta suck when the Island decides to erupt right when you are there to get Water Temp readings...

    :eek:
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    Thats not a fault persay. Whats happening is that at the junction between the mississippi and... is that the ohio river (?), sedimpents start being depositd. This applies a great deal of weight onto the crust which causes earthquakes in that region.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    That's not quite true. The New Madrid Fault Zone is, or at least was, a series of faults which failed to develop further but remained a weak spot. Combined with the sediment, we get geological activity.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Actually, as described in numerous places, it is a Tectonic fault way down deep, produced long ago when continental drift tried to rip this area apart but failed to fully seperate. (I'm quite suprised that there are no volcanic effects from this, but the day is young geologically speaking... :p

    Because of this, large quakes are not numerous, but when they do occur they are really BIG! (Like the one that occured in Alaska in 1964).

    Some argue that even though there are numerous small quakes in one location, this does not necessarily relieve the stress build up on the main fault.

    So... one of these days my log home will be at the bottom of the Hollow, and I'll have to start all over again.

    :rolleyes:
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Jack,

    What types of geological elements are between Sparta and New Madrid? I know when I lived in Columbia MO, it was widely reported that Columbia was fairly insulated from most New Madrid activity due to heavy granite deposits in the Ozarks.

    Now St. Louis on the other hand, could suffer a bad fate, second only to Memphis. STL is approx. 190 miles from New Madrid and it is all sedimentary river bed between here and there. Not to mention the fact our new home moves us off the bluffs and down on to sedimentary soils...

    Jake
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Well Sparta and the surrounding area are perched upon the ancient sea beds of the Cumberland Plataeu.

    Hydrologically speaking, the whole place is a maze of lateral artesian springs and waterfalls. This is beautiful country, but I'd hate to think what all that water would do when shaken up and trying to find new paths to the various lakes and to the Mississippi river.

    :p

    A quake of those magnitudes would wip our house out plain and simple. If the center columns in the basement didn't give out right away, and the house miraculously stayed together, it would certainly go down the North bluff here into the creek. :D

    I'm looking into EQuake insurance but I bet that's going to be a fortune with NMFZ so near.

    Trying to shore up the house for something like one of those is just a futile attempt to live in the past. Better to let it take her, and start over. The priority becomes surviving the actual event(s).

    ;)
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Just install airbags all over. When they sense the fault is going off, they expand. :D
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]Hey, sounds like fun!
    Meanwhile, a small island not too far from here is[/B][/QUOTE]You had also more fun going on there...

    [url]http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz/waimate_tornado.htm[/url]


    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
    [B]That's gotta suck when the Island decides to erupt right when you are there to get Water Temp readings...
    [/B][/QUOTE]Now isn't it that when water is mixed with hot magma that produces best results... espcially in caldera forming eruption like Krakatoa.


    [url]http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/HydroVolcEruption.html[/url]



    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
    [B]Hydrologically speaking, the whole place is a maze of lateral artesian springs and waterfalls.[/B][/QUOTE]Water+sediments+earthquake=now where did all this jelly like ground come?

    [img]http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/Charleston1895.gif[/img]

    [url]http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/[/url]
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
    [B]You had also more fun going on there...

    [url]http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz/waimate_tornado.htm[/url][/B][/QUOTE]

    Yep, that was top story in the news for a while. :D
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]Yep, that was top story in the news for a while. :D [/B][/QUOTE]Now wasn't there downburst in that?
    Those are half of the fun.


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