{"id":187,"date":"2010-01-18T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=187"},"modified":"2011-08-24T18:18:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T00:18:59","slug":"could-a-earthquake-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/could-a-earthquake-happen-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Could an Earthquake Happen along the Mississippi River? Think New Madrid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_192\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/NewMadridfault.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-192\" title=\"NewMadrid fault\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/NewMadridfault-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"A major fault lies below the Mississippi River from Memphis to St. Louis\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/NewMadridfault-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/NewMadridfault-742x1024.jpg 742w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/NewMadridfault.jpg 839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intensity graph for the New Madrid fault<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With all the coverage of the 7.0 magnitude quake in Haiti, interest has shifted to the USA. Could it happen here?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n    google_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2632865458600424\"; \/* WaterwayBlog *\/ google_ad_slot = \"8381973889\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/image-181.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-186\" title=\"Vol 3 of DISCOVER! America's Great River Road\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/image-181-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"Find extensive details about the New Madrid earthquake fault and the formation of REELFOOT Lake in Volume 3 of DISCOVER! America's Great River Road.\" width=\"115\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of Volume 3, DISCOVER! America&#39;s Great River Road<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ironically, the New Madrid Fault is a major active fault line that runs approximately from Memphis, Tennessee, to St. Louis, Missouri. On Dec. 16, 1811, this area was hit with an estimated 8.6 magnitude quake on the modern-day Richter scale. A second quake on January 23, 1812 is estimated to have been an 8.4. A THIRD shock on February 7, 1812, is estimated to have been the strongest jolt ever to hit the North American continent at somewhere near 8.7 to 8.9.<\/p>\n<p>We pulled some illuminating facts from Volume 3 of DISCOVER! America&#8217;s Great River Road&#8230; What would an 8.7 magnitude earthquake feel like?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n    google_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2632865458600424\"; \/* WaterwayBlog *\/ google_ad_slot = \"8381973889\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It released energy equal to 150,000,000 tons of TNT. In comparison, the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII equaled 35,000 to 40,000 tons of TNT!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Return to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\">RAMBLIN&#8217; ON Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Return to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\">www.greatriver.com<\/a>\u00a0, <em>The Mississippi River Home Page<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the coverage of the 7.0 magnitude quake in Haiti, interest has shifted to the USA. Could it happen here? Ironically, the New Madrid Fault is a major active fault line that runs approximately from Memphis, Tennessee, to St. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/could-a-earthquake-happen-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,100],"tags":[98,99,97,86],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lower-mississippi","category-natural-disasters","tag-earthquake","tag-memphis","tag-new-madrid-fault","tag-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}