Preparing for mid-America earthquake

[DrLeftover]

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.

http://commercial-news.com/cnhi_special_projects/x730881048/The-Big-One-Preparing-for-mid-America-earthquake

 

[Evil Eye]

I doubt any amount of preparation would prepare everyone for something like that. Though it doesn't hurt to try, I'm sure.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I doubt any amount of preparation would prepare everyone for something like that. Though it doesn't hurt to try, I'm sure.

evacuation?

 

[DrLeftover]

There had been a map with that..... damned web.

 

[Evil Eye]

evacuation?

On that scale?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Sure why not?

 

[Evil Eye]

Well, they might not get much of a warning...

 

[DrLeftover]

and now the map is showing up.

I give up.

 

[Evil Eye]

This probably won't make you feel better, but I could see the map from the start.

 

[Andrew Darmac]

That's pretty close to where I live.

But I'm more afraid of flood and tornadoes compared to anything else.