http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... ce+News%29
It's a bit of news about why New Madrid - not at a tectonic plate boundary - was able to be so violent 200 years ago. And, could it happen again?
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Watson » August 27th, 2015, 2:24 pm wrote:On a somewhat related note, given you have a tenuously stable area of southern Missouri. It has just been confirmed that the practice of fracking by the oil and gas industry, is directly responsible for an earthquake in northern British Columbia, and suspected in another. It is deliberately destabilizing what could be a fragile balance of the earths crust. Imagine if a small fracking quake in Texas tipped the balance to set of Yellowstone or even southern Missouri.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
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Watson » August 28th, 2015, 1:49 pm wrote:With all the happenings that would cause the river to flow upstream, I don't think many people would want to see it. And if it is such a lazy looking stream, would you even notice?
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