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

Oh, Frack

[postbigbang]

Can't be all that juice pumped into the ground.

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.

No kidding?

[BenJeremy]

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.

Y'hear that Midwest?

[Culture20]

It's all y'all's fault.

Re:Y'hear that Midwest?

[mjwx]

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.

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:Anyway

[riverat1]

I think the 1700 Cascadia earthquake off the Oregon/Washington coast probably qualifies as the largest in recorded history in the continental US. It hit at about 9:00 pm, January 26, 1700 and was an estimated magnitude of 8.7-9.2. (The reason the time is known so accurately is that the tsunami it caused was recorded in Japanese records.)

Follow the money - as in, yours

[SuperKendall]

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.