2017/18 NEW MADRID MEGA QUAKE

The New Madrid seismic zone is very, very close.
http://showme.net/~fkeller/quake/images2/fivequakes.jpg

So, let's look up when the last New Madrid quake happened...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1811-1812newmadrid/summary.php

This is some scary ass shit. The last major earthquakes were in 1811 and 1812. The fault has been basically dormant since.

>the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812 rank as some of the largest in the United States since its settlement by Europeans. They were by far the largest east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada. The area of strong shaking associated with these shocks is two to three times as large as that of the 1964 Alaska earthquake and 10 times as large as that of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Fuck.

>The earthquakes caused the ground to rise and fall - bending the trees until their branches intertwined and opening deep cracks in the ground. Deep seated landslides occurred along the steeper bluffs and hillslides; large areas of land were uplifted permanently; and still larger areas sank and were covered with water that erupted through fissures or craterlets. Huge waves on the Mississippi River overwhelmed many boats and washed others high onto the shore. High banks caved and collapsed into the river; sand bars and points of islands gave way; whole islands disappeared.

This is some Revelations type shit.

>A notable area of subsidence that formed during the February 7, 1812, earthquake is Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee,

So, all is well and good. So I decided to see if there were any eclipses across the U.S. preceding these. Lo And behold...

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=18110917

Tl:DR We may be FUCKED.

Memphis and St. Louis will both be destroyed.

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There's been quite a few articles written about "What if?" scenarios concerning a new round of earthquakes coming from New Madrid, and they're all horrifying. The lower 48 would basically be cut in half as far as ground transportation

>About 42,000 search and rescue personnel working in 1,500 teams are required to respond to the earthquakes.

>Damage to critical infrastructure (essential facilities, transportation, and utility lifelines) is substantial in the 140 impacted counties near the rupture zone, including 3,500 damaged bridges and nearly 425,000 breaks and leaks to both local and interstate pipelines.

>Approximately 2.6 million households are without power after the earthquake. Nearly 86,000 injuries and fatalities result from damage to infrastructure.

>Nearly 130 hospitals are damaged and most are located in the impacted counties near the rupture zone.

>There is extensive damage and substantial travel delays in both Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, thus hampering search and rescue as well as evacuation.

>Moreover roughly 15 major bridges are unusable.

>Three days after the earthquake, 7.2 million people are still displaced and 2 million people seek temporary shelter.

>Direct economic losses for the eight states total nearly $300 billion, while indirect losses may be at least twice this amount.

>'In a massive earthquake we could lose a good part of Western Kentucky, we could lose a good part of Arkansas or southern Missouri.'

>'The clock's ticking.'