Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive

sciencehabit writes "The occasional quakes rattling the New Madrid Seismic Zone, a series of Midwestern faults named for a small town in the Missouri Bootheel, aren't aftershocks of the massive quakes that rocked our fledgling nation more than 2 centuries ago, a new study suggests. In other words, modern-day quakes are signs that the faults in the region are still accumulating stress—and sometimes releasing it as fresh rumblings."

Comments

Y'hear that Midwest?

[Culture20]

It's all y'all's fault.

Re:Midwest

[ackthpt]

The best thing that could happen to Midwest geography would be growing a mountain range... An east-west one, so that it'd be tolerable in winter, as long as you're south of it, and tolerable in summer, as long as you're north.

You and Lex Luthor think alike.

Re:Where's the "safest" place on Earth?

[turkeydance]

my home town. nothing happens here. ever.

Re:Oh, Frack

[flyneye]

Meanwhile, we are getting tremors here, where there used to be NO tremors and it all started when the Okies started fracking.
What would you say that is? The Teletubbies having a party?
It's fracking and frankly it needs to stop. The Okies are having the worst of it and want it to stop from what I see of their newscasts, but as usual, corporate interests are saying;" We'll look into this, after while, when we get time, if we remember."
Well what a bunch of dumbshits. We just don't need the extra gas that fucking bad. If you think you do, go live in Oklahoma then blow off your fucking mouth.