Is The New Madrid Fault Coming To Life

[edina]

This is a very interesting article, it is very informative, and it does a tie in to the issues about the dead birds, and fish.

Is The New Madrid Fault Coming To Life

I found this article from a reliable source.  But today, I thought I would try to trace it to its original writer.  I'm having trouble with this, it looks like it was first posted by "The End of the American Dream" site.  Let me know if anyone discovers the origin of this.

[Kim B]

Here is a good picture of the Ramapo faultline (the thin red line that runs through PA under Harrisburg and into NJ/NYC).  This thing obviously has been the cause of repeated micro-quakes that started in Dillsburg, PA October 2008 (they had 60 quakes in this area in that month alone).  Since then, there has been more than 1,000+ micro quakes ranging between 2 to a 3.1.  One morning in October of 2009, there were three quakes within a 6 minute span ranging between 2.1 to 2.7 (it was all over the news lol).  And the geologists that study this never mentioned the Ramapo faultline at all, and they say not to worry.  What a load of crap!

 

[pat staley]

I just remembered something about dead birds when the New Madrid came alive the last time. It was on tv but can't remember what they said about it.

[edina]

PS, I like the links, the wiki gives a good map of the Ramapo.

If you make a point of looking at the USGS Central and Southeast map, you can see the pattern of quakes line up with those two parallel areas that show up on the ABC youtube video map I mentioned below, at 1:12.

I like looking at this map because it helps me mentally track things.  I remember when I first starting looking at the map, it was less than 100.  And I remember when I thought,'Oh no, it TEOTWAKI time when it surpassed as average of 250.  Now it is at 843.  You can see that number if you click on the map link above.

Often it you click on this map to go to the page below it, where it may look like there is only one quake you'll find 2 to 3, or sometimes dozens. 

[edina]

Kim, I thought of you and Ronnie when I saw the second video.  I wonder if you also noticed the shaded fault line areas in the Appalachians on one of the maps they showed.  I believe it is at the 1:12 point on the you tube.  It looks to me like there is an active area in Eastern Tennesee and another area from the coast of South Carolina up into the center of the state.

You posted some helpful, solid info below, thanks a bunch, ... home turf for you!!!!

One of the things I wondered is if there were any sort of significant activity on the Madrid if this would cascade into the Ramapo, and vice versa.

[Kim B]

The Ramapo fault:

 

The Ramapo Fault not only serves as a threat to most of New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the United States, but New York City as well. A 2008 study concluded that a magnitude 6 or 7 earthquake was destined to originate from the zone. This would almost definitely spawn hundreds or even thousands of fatalities and billions of dollars in damage.^[14] Studying around 400 earthquakes over the past 300 years, the study also found that there was an additional fault zone extending north from the Ramapo Fault Zone into southwestern Connecticut.^[14]

Just off the northern terminus of the fault line is the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. Built between 1956 and 1960 by Consolidated Edison Company, the plant began operating in 1963. At the cost of 90,000,000 1978 USD, it has been subjected to a controversy over animal safety, as well as the basis for concerns that an earthquake from the Ramapo Fault will devastate the power plant and life around it.^[15]

Despite the rarity of strong East Coast earthquakes in the United States, there are some that do occur. In actuality, earthquake rupture zones in the eastern United States are on average ten times as large as western ones when comparing similarly-sized events.^[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramapo_Fault

[edina]

One of the things interesting in the second youtube video posted is the lesser known Ramapo Fault in the Northeast.  That particular video is an educational piece by ABC, ran last Jan 2010, soon after the Haiti quake.