While many people, including myself, are shaking their heads at the notion of an earthquake that could split our country in half, the facts remain that it is a possibility. In fact, it's a big enough concern that our government and large corporations are running test drills to see how certain areas would react to a huge quake like this.
In October 2009, a team composed of University of Illinois and Virginia Tech researchers headed by Amr S. Elnashai, funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), considered a scenario where all three segments of the New Madrid fault ruptured simultaneously with a total earthquake magnitude of 7.7. The report found that there would be significant damage in the eight states studied – Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee – with the probability of additional damage in states farther from the NMSZ. Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri would be most severely impacted, and the cities of Memphis, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri would be severely damaged. The report estimated 86,000 casualties, including 3,500 fatalities; 715,000 damaged buildings; and 7.2 million people displaced, with 2 million of those seeking shelter, primarily due to the lack of utility services. Direct economic losses, according to the report, would be at least $300 billion..
The part that we should worry about is that there are 15 Nuclear Reactors along this particular fault line! So if the worst does take place we are talking about a MAJOR catastrophe taking place.
This may be what the United States may look like if a large earthquake takes place on this fault line:
The blue portion shows us where our new coastlines would be. Crazy to comprehend, am I right?!
So as we continue to prepare for a variety of survival situations, we may want to amp up our bug out plans and consider fault lines such as this one. It has been a long time since a large quake has rocked the U.S. and more specifically along a huge fault line, but that just means we may be closer to having that take place.
After reading what's in the news and checking out everything there is to know about fault lines, do you think there's a threat? How else should we be preparing for a potential catastrophic event like this one?
Source: ABCNEWS
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already did via the mississippi
Yay! No more Illinois! This state sucks$#%&!@*
Hummmm…
Click bate
Stupid ad keeps covering the 2nd page.
It will certainly make a really, really big Mississippi.
More worried about Yellowstone, honestly.
Can’t get through the damn pop ups
If it could just rip California off and throw it beneath the ocean that would be great.
Yep, heres the deal people.. The fault erupts every 200 yr.s… Its way past due. Last time it was late the mississippi ran backwards. Now the scientists are predicting, it she quask it will be the largest ever and will be felt on the east coast causing a major disaster for all of the usa as it will cut off supples to the rest of the usa, roads, railways, shipping lanes destroyed. Got the picture.
Awesome! Now I can put some anti-earthquake supplies in my bug-out bag!
Cool
I’m starting to get to the point I want to unfollow this page. About 90% of the articles are conspiracy theory sensationalism that disregard all current scientific research as flimsy justification for survival prep.
Right in half huh? Perfect, liberals can have their own half of a country and the rest of us can have our freedom.
It’s already divided anyway
Key word is (may )
Daniel Guzman
I’m actually ok with the new map.
Now you’re starting to go down the tinfoil hat rabbit hole.
Southern Cali. Northern is a red state.
Awesome, read what Edgar Casey said about it
Promises, promises…
No it won’t and people should not believe this nonsense fear mongering. Go study geology. Absolute garbage.
Id love to seperate from the east coast. Its like a parody of america in America
No one can possibly say this is fully truthful, fault line I know runs through California, they may have issues there, but hey, they can’t abide by federal laws,$#%&!@*happens.
You don’t have to wait for Mother Nature. Hell you could even separate yourself from the human race.
Take the south with you please
And click here to find out why that’s complete bullshit. https://dnr.mo.gov/geology/geosrv/geores/techbulletin1.htm
Right on!
Yeah, by mouth breathing troglodytes that are afraid of everything.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/
Pres Bohammed already beat em to it NEXT click bait please
Our politicians are way ahead of you
Oh STEP THE HELL BACK PEOPLE ! Quite enough OF THE SKY IS FALLING HORSE$#%&!@*FROM MSM , we don’t need more SPECULATION OF FOOKING DOOM !
Should be on Arizona state line.
Yep in 50 million years better start prep now.