The Big One: Preparing For Mid-America Earthquake
By Michael Fitzgerald CNHI News Service
Via: Stevequayle.com
Are We Ready?
This story is one in a 5-part series by the CNHI News Service about preparing for and responding to natural disasters. Below are links to the complete report:
Part I: Are We Prepared? | Part II: Disaster Dollars
Part III: Lessons Learned | Part IV: Warning Signs
Part V: The Big One
The Daily Item Mon May 20, 2013, 12:52 PM EDT
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It’s a bleak scenario. A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault kills or injures 60,000 people in Tennessee. A quarter of a million people are homeless. The Memphis airport – the country’s biggest air terminal for packages – goes off-line. Major oil and gas pipelines across Tennessee rupture, causing shortages in the Northeast. In Missouri, another 15,000 people are hurt or dead. Cities and towns throughout the central U.S. lose power and water for months. Losses stack up to hundreds of billions of dollars.
Fortunately, this magnitude 7.7 temblor is not real but rather a scenario imagined by the Mid-America Earthquake Center and the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at George Washington University. The goal of their 2008 analysis was to plan for a modern recurrence of quakes that happened along the New Madrid fault more than 200 years ago, in 1811 and 1812.
No one alive has experienced a major earthquake in the Midwest, yet geologists say it’s only a matter of time. That puts a lot of uncertainty on disaster officials. Their earthquake precautions – quake-resistant building codes, for example – have never been reality tested. Some question if enough has been done to strengthen existing buildings, schools and other infrastructure. It is difficult to prepare for a geological catastrophe the public cannot see and has never experienced.
“We mostly react to disasters, and it’s been extremely rare that we get ahead of things,” said Claire Rubin, a disaster response specialist in Arlington, Va. “A lot of hard problems don’t get solved. They get moved around and passed along.”
Steven L. Lueker is among disaster response officials who worry about the New Madrid fault and another fault to the north, in the Wabash Valley. He’s the emergency management coordinator for Jefferson County in Southern Illinois, and he rattles off likely impact statistics. One of the most important: The New Madrid fault is expected to generate a large-scale earthquake within the next 50 years.
“I may not be here when it happens,” said Lueker. “Or it may happen while we’re talking. You don’t know.”
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Its only a matter of time.
I expect the big one within months not years.
A 7.7 mag EQ between Cairo and Memphis will kill millions within days.
Expect it. The US Gov is working on it. They are just a little slow.
Do you have a job Barracuda? Does BIN pay you or are you a paid shill? Because you seem to have a lot of time on your hands.
This is all about getting ahead of the New Madrid disaster the U.S. knows Planet X will cause.
That is all this is about.
Hardly news. This is OLD news, well known, that the U.S. is preparing for New Madrid quakes like never seen before. So rather than look like they are clueless, OLD stories like this are put out there to make it appear the govt was on top of it. NOT!
The Madrid will have other assistance apart from the Nibiru solar system.
The LA sinkhole