Does anyone besides me Know about New Madrid Earthquake Fault?
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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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try this:\nhttp://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
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Almost 80,000 people lost their life in this worst ever earthquake in this area.\nIt happened on 8th of October 2005.\nIt was of 7.6 megnituide.\nThese days earthquake hit areas are under very very cold weather. Snow is falling their and they people dont have homes still living in camps n tants provided by Gov. and UNO. they dont have schools, hospitals, clean water.\nCauses told by some geologists were the movement of plates under that area.
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There are literally hundreds of earthquakes every day.  Thankfully most are small.\n\nSome faults are well documented and a loose prediction that they will slip sometime in the near to middle future can be made but with very little accuracy.
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It would seem to indicate that the area in question is on a fault line that is extremely unstable.
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Go to www.usgs.gov.  It's a great site that gives you all sorts of information about earthquaktes, faultlines, etc. I'm not sure if you can view all of North America, but as there are so many faultlines, it may be best to view it in smaller areas.  Good luck and enjoy exploring!
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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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The foci of earthquakes at transform boundaries tend to be at shallow depths.\n\nSee source.
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I like this one  \nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
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Actually  the Santa Monica fault and the Hollywood fault are considered separate:\n\nSee the map here (101 and 102 in the south of the map)\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/qfaults/ca/lax.html
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well, at least one would be earthquakes, which happen when the earth's plates shift and collide. there is at least one major earthquake fault line under california
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Try http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ Thats where I go whenever I want to look up anything on current/recent earthquakes.
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There was a PBS program 'Nature', just aired a couple of weeks ago, about whether animals can predict nature disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis. Whether animals can predict earthquakes is not conclusive. But there's a scientist in Berkeley (forgot his name) claimed he had predicted earthquakes accurately in the last few decades. What he used was simply newspaper ads on missing pets. He said normally you'd see about 10-15 missing pets ads, but before earthquakes, the missing pets ads would increase. His theory is contraversial, but it's worth a try. You may want to test that theory. \n\nThe program also mentioned about the terrible tsunami in Asia over a year ago. It mentioned none of the animals got harmed since they 'knew' the waves were coming and escaped from the disaster. \n\nOne theory is that animals can hear low frequency sound from beneath the earth, like grinding sound of moving rocks. \n\nAnyway, you'll find some interesting programs on PBS stations.
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Patterns of seismic activity along a fault line.\n\nScientists set up seismographs to measure this activity. Movement along faultlines is not uncommon. But we do not usually feel it b/c it is not strong enough. They, however, can detect these slight movements w/ their sensitive equipment.\n\nThere are some other signs as well. An increase in geologic activity near a faultline can give clues. Uplifting of land is one. Increases in geothermal activity may be another.
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There was one yesterday on Leyte Philippines bad enough to wipe out the electricity for 75% of the Visayas, we lost power for a total of five hours.\nAt present there are conflicting reports as to it's strength, and the major earthquake reporting site hasn't recorded it.\nNow if we are talking big as in really big say a Nine or nearly, there are many places overdue an earthquake. So my answer would be very, very soon.
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Yes.  The New Madrid Fault line made an earthquake 8.4 in 1811.  It made the Mississippi Rive flow backwards.  It has not had a major release since, but small 3.0's and 4.0's occur all the time.  Check out this website.  \n\nhttp://erp-web.er.usgs.gov/reports/abstract/1996/cu/g2733.htm\n\n\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/
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San Francisco Earthquake History 1880-1994\nToo many for me to list them for you...hope this is what you were looking for. :)