Duck and Cover

[Marcus Bryant]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/157159-white-house-readies-us-shake-out-to-prepare-citizens-for-earthquakes

[clambake]

phenomenal had to post the first comment.

[4>0rings]

2012... Mayans... Just sayin'...

[clambake]

the comments are funny........and will make you sad.

[EVAY]

The New Madrid fault line is apparently monstrous.

When the earthquake hit in the first half of the 19th century they said it rattled windows as far away as Boston.

So...I guess...it's a good idea to teach people how to prepare?

[EVAY]

During 'The Commies are Coming, The Commies are Coming" scares of the 50's-60's, people in my town were taught to get under their desks in case of getting bombed by the Russians.

One time (maybe more...I only remember one) they had the entire school system go through an evacuation drill out of the town into the surrounding countryside.

The Reds didn't actually show up, though.

So does that mean that the practice was a waste of time and resources?

[EVAY]

Well, for what it's worth, I can still jump under a desk lickety-split!!! LOL

[Winehole23]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811-1812.php
http://www.dnr.mo.gov/geology/geosrv/geores/techbulletin1.htm
http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/compendium/

[Nbadan]

The NMSZ appears to be about 30 years overdue for a magnitude 6.3 quake because the last quake of this size occurred 100 hundred years ago at Charleston, Missouri, on Oct. 31, 1895 (it was a magnitude 6.7). A magnitude 6.3 quake near Lepanto, Arkansas, on Jan. 5, 1843, was the next prior earthquake of this magnitude. About 75 percent of the estimated recurrence time for a magnitude 7.6 earthquake has elapsed since the last quake of this size occurred in 1812.