I was in Indianapolis this past weekend for the CEDIA trade show. This
is the big one for home automation and theater stuff. There was a small
earthquake Sunday morning in the area, about 3-4 on the Richter scale.
We didn't feel it but there were discussions on the radio about the New
Madrid fault.



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

-- L

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