Was talking to friends from the midwest and was suprised to learn they didnt know the greatest danger of loss of life in the USA is along the New Madird Fault.AKA The Mississippi Valley see image\nhttp://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/Charleston1895.gif\nSO why is it nobody talks about this but every day its on and on about San Francisco?
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If you live in the area (as my parents do), you get a small reminder every few months.  If you're an engineer like me, you're pretty keenly aware of the situation, since the building design requirements for that area are the same as they are in California.\n\nThey haven't been that way for long, so there are a lot of structures down there that aren't likely to fare well if the Big One hits.\n\nI do know that Anheuser-Busch has retrofitted its St. Louis plant and expects to be up and running within 24 hours of a major quake.  So there'll be beer.
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I was willing to give this a reasonable chance until I read this:\n\nOne early morning in '99 Range was returing from Henderson when a low-flying craft dropped a trail right overhead along Boulder Highway. "It covered my car with a sticky web-like coating and I saved a specimen in a jar. Microscopic fiber-like filaments," Range reports\n\nWhat was the outcome of the analysis of this specimen?  If this happened in 1999 don't you think she would've taken it in for analysis by now?  \n\nAnd what does being over 25 have to do with anything?  Are all people over 25 blind or something?\n\nI live in NJ so I can't say that its completely untrue but, I find it hard to believe that so few people have come forward.  A lot of people live in Vegas, I would've expected more people to have said somethin by now and I would expect this to be national news if it were true.  People aren't as complacent as you think they are, when it has to do with their long term health and the health of their children, people are usually very vigilant.
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It is completely coincidental and has nothing to do with whether the country is developed or not. Unfortunately, when their buildings aren't as well designed as they are in so-called First World nations, there are more deaths due to building collapses, etc, and they may not have the infrastructure in place to assist in rescue and medically treat the injured when these disasters happen.
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"ALMOST FOUND", scorbore?  What does THAT mean, other than to say that MJF's foundation has not been successful?\n\nGOOD QUESTION, "french war veteran".  People who fail to thoroughly read the 2100 misleading words of Missouri "Prop 2" may not realize that the low-income women who would "donate" their eggs and be "reimbursed for their expenses" (kind of like selling blood to a private blood bank) will have NO RECOURSE UNDER THE LAW for any medical problems that result, including resulting disability or death.  READ THE WORDS.
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That has absolutely no sense at all...\n\nHow do you think the Rocky Mountains and the Andes were formed but by millions of years of earthquakes????\n\nWas it hot then?\n\nOf course not! Some of them occured during the glacial era. No SUVs then!\n\nStop listening to stupid people such as Greenpiss!!!
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Never been there, but that was a very interesting website.  Glad you shared it with us.\n\nI am watching a show about the Waverly Hills Sanitorium in Kentucky I believe.  It's a lot like this.  It was built for TB patients.  Supposedly, over 63,000 people died there and it is extremely haunted.  It's on SciFi.  Don't know when it'll be on again, but it's really creepy.   Check it out if you get a chance.
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far less likely to get an earthquake or tsunami because the location and size of faults in our area however there is a NASTY continental slope and shelf on the east coast that i can assure you if we were to get a large enough earthquake or subsurface landslide in the right place the northeastern U.S. would be in for one HELL of a tsunami. I had to study underwater physics and underwater topography for my job in the navy so i'm not just a doom sayer I do have a good idea what i'm talking about.
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It won't be Arizona, my friend. When San Andreas cracks open, and it will, the coast line will be on the Western Slope of Colorado, and I'll tell you why!!\nIn the middle of the Mojave Desert is a Nuclear testing plant, placed there by our wonderful United States Government (what a bunch of pricks). When the big one hits...say goodbye to about 1,000 miles of these United States (and parts of Mexico, too).
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I think there was more to the high-jacking than we have been told. Why I do not know...There has been a lot of talk about the way the twin towers fell. \nThank you for sending this I have enjoyed.
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The Liberals are too busy getting their celebrity spokespersons to tell the rest of us to help in the disasters.\n\nNo, really, I don't know what the liberals are doing (although I AM heartily sick of celebrity spokespersons)\n\nI will say tho, that the Mennonite Central Committee is one of the best in times of disaster.  Usually by the time the Red Cross gets there, the Mennonites have come in and rebuilt most of the area!!  :)
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*\nYes! The Hoosier state has trembled in the wake of earth waves generated by powerful earthquakes in the past, and will, no doubt, tremble again in quakes that are yet to come. These pages briefly describe earthquakes in our past, what causes our earthquakes, what is being done to reduce losses that will result from future quakes, and what you should do before, during, and after an earthquake.\n\n\nEarthquakes in Indiana  [New Window] \nArticle about the history and future of earthquakes in Indiana.\nVerified by a Netscape Security Partner: Netscape Security Center http://igs.indiana.edu/geology/earthquakes/eqinindiana/index.cfm
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I was always told to stand in a doorway.  I grew up in Alaska and experienced many quakes.  I never lived in an apartment complex.  I would definately stay off the stair and/or elevator once the earthquake began.  Do you have an earthquake survival kit?  It might be good idea to put one together if you don't.
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(m)\n\nAustralian and American researchers investigating forces exerted on the Indo-Australian tectonic plate have discovered that the considerable stresses being exerted on the plate could be leading to its breaking up.\n\nARC Professorial Fellow, Mike Sandiford, from the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences was recently awarded ARC funding for research aimed at understanding the forces that drive the motion of the Earth’s tectonic plates and the distribution of stresses in the Earth’s crust that give rise to great earthquakes such as the magnitude 9 Boxing Day Sumatran quake.\n\nProfessor Sandiford says the research shows that as much as 10 per cent of the huge amounts of energy being created at plate connection points at Sumatra and Java are being transferred back into our plate and causing major stresses.\n\n“This is enough stress to contribute to mild earthquake activity in the central regions of the plate, such as in the Australian continent or central Indian Ocean, and provides us with clues as to why our plate has been slowly breaking up,” he says.\n\n“The Indian Ocean quakes are, in effect, leading to the active rupture of the Indo-Australian plate into separate Indian and Australian plates. This new research provides us with important information about the stresses that are driving this drawn out tectonic plate divorce.”\n\nThe research, which was conducted in collaboration with Wouter Pieter Schellart of the Australian National University and David Coblentz of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, will be published in the journal Geology (27 January).\n\nThe research is also important for understanding why smaller intra-plate earthquakes such as the 1989 Newcastle quake, which occurred nowhere near the edge of the plate, take place. Up to now, why earthquakes occur in apparently safe zones in the centre of plates has not been very well understood.\n\nProfessor Sandiford says, “Earthquakes such as the 1989 Newcastle quake that killed 13 people and caused more than $1 billion in damages are just one manifestation of mild tectonic activity that has been affecting the Australian continent for the last 5-10 million years.”\n\nThe new research shows that stresses originating at points of collision between two plates are being dissipated back into our plate and generating enormous internal stresses.\n\nThe ARC funded project will map the spatial and temporal pattern of this tectonic activity and relate it to the factors that drive the motion of the Indo-Australian plate.\n\n“This research will contribute to our understanding of the factors that drive plate motion, to earthquake risk assessment in Australia and other comparatively stable continental regions, and to the factors that have shaped our distinctive Australian landscapes,” he says.\n\nBACKGROUND INFORMATION\n\nWhat causes tectonic plates to move?\nThe Earth is made up of a series of layers. The outermost layer is called the crust and the innermost is the core. In between lies an area called the mantle (in turn made up of upper and lower mantle), which is arguably the most important when it comes to understanding where big earthquakes occur.\n\nThe outer part of the Earth, comprising the crust and top 100 or so kilometres of the mantle (together called the lithosphere), consists of a collection of eight major plates which almost fit perfectly together. The continents and oceans all lie on these plates, the major ones referred to as the African, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, Antarctic, Philippine, Pacific, Nazca, North American and South American, depending on their geographic location.\n\nThese plates (also referred to as tectonic plates) float on the softer mantle underneath. Convection currents within the upper mantle layer are a major driving force driving plate motion and therefore behind earthquake activity.\n\nThe lower sections of the mantle closest to the molten core of the earth are also the hottest parts of this la
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One man out of thirteen survived this tragedy.  I call this a tragedy because the officials could have acted an awful lot faster than what they did in getting the others out.  In fact, it was in the newspaper today about how one of the miners that died kept a running diary while trapped for over twelve hours until he finally died.  Granted, they were of varying ages, but that should not have made any difference.  They should have ALL been out in a matter of a few hours, not a few days.  I blame the mining company in part because of the inaccessibility to the mine shaft and the mine itself.  One way out of this thing?  PLEASE!  If the mine was built in recent years, I would think that a second exit would have been put in.  The mining company did not see to this, and so I blame them.  ALSO...the town should NOT  be paying for their funerals, the mining company should be footing the ENTIRE BILL!!!  As for the mayor...who knows?  Not me.
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Bravo!  I commend you for opening your eyes to the situation.  Prisonplanet should provide you with excellent links to great websites regarding building 7.  I also suggest watching "Loose change".  You can view it for FREE on Google video.
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I think it will definitely be a earthquake or 2 with the epicenters definitely in low income housing areas.  Then there will be wide spread fires to complete the devastation.  FYI - I heard that he & croonies are close to perfecting a devasting remote controlled tornado to specifically target problem areas.  In addition, they have been researching tsunamis to take out the left coast and the NE coast line.  You know that's where all those damn liberals live.
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Oh! Don't forget the New Madrid earthquake that made her run backwards.  (it really happened)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_earthquake