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Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive

Posted by samzenpus on from the waiting-for-the-big-one dept.

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."

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  1. No kidding? by BenJeremy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, who writes this stuff? I remember a minor earthquake we had in Michigan in the mid-80s. Why would they suddenly stop? Geological activity occurs over geological time scales, which is to say, thousands, even millions of years.

  2. Follow the money - as in, yours by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Still have a few oil company shills lurking the influential threads of Slashdot, I see.

    There is a LOT of oil money from the Gulf trying to put a lid on Fracking. Nice to see the AC's are getting paid handsomely to try and stomp out independence from a barbaric region of the earth.

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  3. Re:Y'hear that Midwest? by mjwx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's all y'all's fault.

    Y'all == singular
    All y'all == plural
    Y'all's == y'all need to go back to grammar school.

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