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    Is The New Madrid Fault Earthquake Zone Coming To Life?

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    What in the world is happening in the middle of the United States right now? Thousands of birds are falling dead from the skies, tens of thousands of fish are washing up on shore dead, earthquakes are popping up in weird and unexpected places and people are starting to get really freaked out about all of this. Well, one theory is that the New Madrid fault zone is coming to life.

    The New Madrid fault zone is six times bigger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. The biggest earthquakes in the history of the United States were caused by the New Madrid fault. Now there are fears that the New Madrid fault zone could be coming to life again, and if a "killer earthquake" does strike it could change all of our lives forever.

    *According to the U.S. Geological Survey, more than 500 measurable earthquakes have been recorded in central Arkansas just since September.
    *A magnitude-3.8 earthquake that shook north-central Indiana on December 30th is being called "unprecedented". It was strong enough to actually cause cracks along the ground and it was felt in portions of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Kentucky.
    *More than 3,000 red-wing blackbirds fell out of the sky dead in the Arkansas town of Beebe on New Year's Eve.
    *Large numbers of dead birds were also found in Kentucky right around Christmas.
    *Approximately 500 dead blackbirds and starlings were also recently discovered in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
    *Approximately 100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River just last week.

    So could all of these things have some other very simple explanation?

    Possibly.

    But the fact that they all happened in or around the New Madrid fault zone is starting to raise some eyebrows.
    About 200 years ago, in 1811 and 1812, there were four earthquakes that were so powerful in the area of the New Madrid fault zone that they are still talked about today. All four of the quakes were estimated to have been magnitude-7.0 or greater. It is said that those earthquakes opened deep fissures in the ground, caused the Mississippi River to run backwards and that they were felt as far away as Boston.

    The last major earthquake to hit the region was a 5.4-magnitude quake that struck the town of Dale, Illinois in 1968. Things have been strangely quiet in the region since then until recently.

    If a true "killer earthquake" struck along the New Madrid fault zone today, cities such as St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee could potentially be completely destroyed.

    Unfortunately, this is not an exaggeration.

    The following video describes just how incredibly powerful the earthquakes along the New Madrid fault in 1811 and 1812 actually were....

    One interesting theory is that the "oil volcano" unleashed by the BP oil spill in 2010 may have sparked renewed seismic activity in that part of the world.

    Jack M. Reed, a retired Texaco geologist-geophysicist, has been carefully studying the geology of the Gulf of Mexico for over 40 years. Reed is convinced that the Gulf of Mexico is currently tectonically active, and that the Gulf of Mexico is the source for most seismic activity along the New Madrid fault. According to Reed, there is substantial evidence that the New Madrid fault zone is directly connected to "deeply buried tectonics" in the Gulf of Mexico....
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    Re: Is The New Madrid Fault Earthquake Zone Coming To Life?

    The first earthquake I ever felt was in my parents' house just south of Saint Joseph, in southwestern Michigan, not far from the New Madrid fault zone, in about 1971. I can readily believe that there's earthquake danger in the midwestern U.S.A.
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