In 1812 there was a quake in Missouri called New Madrid.  It made the Mississippi river run backwards, people rode out the aftershocks on treetrunks, as they made waves in the ground, and it rang churchbells in Boston 1000 miles away.  

It is said to go off about every 200 years.  New Madrid has been pretty quiet theser last 200 years, we are about due.  

Most of St. Louis, which is well within the damage radius, is built of brick to no earthquake standards

-- Lawrence Lile, P.E.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell McMahon [mailto:apptech@paradise.net.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 5:02 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Big Explosion in N Korea
> 
> Jinx posted
> 
> >
> http://www.gns.cri.nz/what/earthact/volcanoes/nzvolcanoes/aucklandprint.ht
> m
> 
> That's a superb page that I hadn't seen before on Auckland volcanoes.
> We are overdue for the next one. It will probably be larger than all the
> rest that have been before. It will probably be in the richer or eastern
> suburbs of the city. It may possibly be at Jinx's place. it won't be at
> mine. My house value would rise substantially once they got the city
> sorted
> out and people realised that volcanoes do happen, but not where I live.
> Famous last words.
> 
> 
>         RM
> 
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