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Re: reckon when the big un will hit?
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Posted by Chris-se-ILL on June 03, 2005 at 09:47:05 from (216.174.170.126):
In Reply to: reckon when the big un will hit? posted by Jak on June 02, 2005 at 09:04:28:
I have read quite a bit about the earthquakes of 1811-1812... If "those quakes" hit today"s midwest... possibility of 10,00-150,000 people would be killed outright! Maybe more! Sure is a lot to contemplate. Some of the first-hand accounts that I have read about, talk about how folks in the New Madrid area were hearing "thunder" {on clear days}, and booming like cannons, for several years before the big ones hit. Over that one year time period it is estimated that as many as 78+ earthquakes occurred, 3 have been guessed at over 8.3, and 5 to 7 were estimated to be over 7.5... {the Richter Scale had not been invented yet}. Can y"all guess what would happen to the infrastructure {powerlines, telephone, pipelines, roads, bridges, food supplies, water supplies, fuel supplies...} if those kind of quakes occured in the winter months like they did back then? Starvation, freezing, panic... total chaos! Scary thoughts!
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