Posted by rskontos on April 20, 2008, at 13:22:47
In reply to Re: Slept right through it » Poet, posted by Larry Hoover on April 20, 2008, at 8:45:39
Yes Lar, that is exactly what my husband told me but of course my foggy brain could not recall it exactly and I did not want to misquote him. The New Madrid Fault. And he told me about the the large earthquake and the redirection of flow and the Mississippi. I got that right at least. But could not recall everything. But then I asked the question if this at least released pressure and he says it is too hard to predict if that is it. Yikes I quit asking questions. I decided ignorance might be bliss. And since I did not wake, I would just not ever know if something happened.
I noticed you called it a fault correctly not a fault line like others--I understand from my geologist husband that the correct term is just fault. I wonder where the phrase fault line ever came from if it isn't entirely correct from a geologist standpoint, do you know? I think I asked him years ago after the earthquake in San Francisco, but I don't remember what he said. Can you see an ongoing memory problem here? Anyway, I find it interesting. Earthquakes are interesting even if scary.
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