Isn't modern communication wonderful. Glad to see almost no human damage.
UK headline from some years back (possibly urban myth) "Small earthquake in Guatamala, not many killed". Earthquakes and the like are relative to where they occur, seems there was another quake (5.2) in Colorado yesterday, not much fuss being made about that.
Thankfully Britain is pretty well immune from earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis which would formerly have been regarded as "Acts of God".
You are correct about Colorado Banned and it's relative non-fuss. Two main reason's for that are earthquakes, although not usually that magnitude, are more common in that region and of course it is not near our Nations capitol.
What peaks my interest is how close it is to the New Madrid fault line which had it's last big show between 1811 and 1812. There were (4) and these have been calculated on average to be between 7.0 to 8.1 in magnitude
The following illustration shows the fallout area in both then and now terms (now dated 2006 but you get the idea)...the devastation would be to say the least immense.
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Thanks for the info~Didn't think about checking out some of these things.
Isn't modern communication wonderful. Glad to see almost no human damage.
UK headline from some years back (possibly urban myth)
"Small earthquake in Guatamala, not many killed".
Earthquakes and the like are relative to where they occur, seems there was another quake (5.2) in Colorado yesterday, not much fuss being made about that.
Thankfully Britain is pretty well immune from earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis which would formerly have been regarded as "Acts of God".
You are correct about Colorado Banned and it's relative non-fuss. Two main reason's for that are earthquakes, although not usually that magnitude, are more common in that region and of course it is not near our Nations capitol.
What peaks my interest is how close it is to the New Madrid fault line which had it's last big show between 1811 and 1812. There were (4) and these have been calculated on average to be between 7.0 to 8.1 in magnitude
The following illustration shows the fallout area in both then and now terms (now dated 2006 but you get the idea)...the devastation would be to say the least immense.
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