Earthquake danger near you?

With the movie "10.5," a Green Bay NBC station's news decided to show us how much of an earthquake threat there is around here.
(Southeastern WI)

The biggest threat is from in Missouri, where there is a big fault, that let go back in 1811.
If such a shaker like that happened today, we'd have some damage, but not much.

The further south though, from IL on, gets worse.

not sure how a big quake from another part of the US would after me, unless it was a sunami wave up tampa bay.

and I remember when I was a kid I always thought it'd be cool to have an earthquake in the midwest, People would freak :)

You'd fall into Lake Winnebago. :D

approximately 17 years ago! I was preganant sitting in my kitchen eating a pizza and all the plates shook in the cabinets and I thought something went wrong with our heater downstairs! Everybody came out of their houses looking around like "What was that? Did you feel that?" For days I would not stay very long downstairs in the basement. So it CAN happen in the midwest!

Was in a small one when I lived in L.A., CA. I was on the 12th floor of a tall building and as I was taking inventory on blouses in a manufacturing warehouse, the clothes rocked back and forth. I thought someone was playing tricks on me. I walked to the front part of the office and everybody just nonchalantly said "That was just an earthquake!" Nobody was bothered by it! Geesh!

is the New Madrid fault near St Louis... and the quake you refer to was so powerful it reversed the course of the Mississippi River in places and shook the ground enough in Boston to ring church bells (they say). There are several excellent books on it -- some factual, some fiction with facts as a background. That fault is still there.... and potentially active. Would be devastating now because it was relatively empty wilderness then.

Check out the photo links:
http://www.hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/
Pretty powerful quake!

For one thing, it was supposedly foretold by the Indian leader Tecumseh. This is the same Tecumseh said to be responsible for the 20-year curse on US presidents.

http://eprentice.sdsu.edu/J03OJ/pratt/Eckert_The_Frontiersmen_webpage.html


For another, the New Madrid area, which still frequently experiences smallish quakes, is also a major hotspot for UFO sightings and other anomalous events. Some people ascribe this to electromagnetic forces generated by stresses in the rocks.

Such is life!

Low EQ danger, no hurricane Danger, moderate danger of tornados near Denver but the mountains make those hard. The drought is probably the biggest threat these days.

And I'm in the middle of an "earthquake preparedness" video script for the state emergency management agency. I've learned all about it.

Those quakes in MO actually rang church bells in Boston! There is a possibility for 5-7.0 (and maybe bigger) earthquakes here, and there is this thing called "amplification" that means that they will be felt over a much greater area than they typically are in California. So it will be a complete mess if it does happen, because nobody is ready, and there will be lots of liquifaction, and old brick buildings to fall down.

I moved here from CA -- now I know I didn't really get away from the shaking!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

Parks Highway 10 miles north of Healy


Sinkhole? Nah. Earthquake.

Doesn't begin to compare with the Anchorage quake in 1964, which was originally "called" an 8.9 but has since been "adjusted" upward to a 9.2.

Don't think a 10.5 is possible...........maybe. But I can guarantee you, I'd never want to be in a populated area that had anything more than a 7!!

Wow.

There was an earthquake in SE AZ in late 1800's supposedly changed the course of San Pedro River and caused rockslides that themselves caused huge fires.

I live about 10 miles out from St. Louis, and the New Madrid fault could possibly be the worse in the country. Not too worried about the ground-shaking, its the floods that would follow that I worry about. '93 was bad enough, could only imagine the shit that would come down if another 1811 level quake happened again.

Angelenos wobble, but they don't fall down.

Native Californian, been through the 1989 quake in SF and I can roll with the punches, baby!

about every few years the ground kinda shakes,most people never feel it. amboy ,il is ruffly the center of a deep fault line. when the madrid goes off again alot of shit will happen..this an outside chance that the buildings in the loop would fall. st louis metro area would be destroyed

no fault lines anywheres near me