Madrid Quake

isn't that the fault that takes out St. Louis?
and East St. Louis?
good riddance to bad trash
of course a certain poster here would lose his weed selling corner
Posted by: navycopjoe

Madrid II - same series and magnitude as the one that reshaped the Mississippi River, could ruin all high-rises and infrastructure from Chicago to Houston. Last time rang churchbells in DC. Practically no reinforcement for quakes is done in the mid-continent. And there's (THEY say) a good chance of a repeat in the next 50-150 yrs, I read 35 years ago.

I read a detailed report on what would happen just to Chicago. Everything on the lakefront is built on sand, which long waves would liquifact (?). What was left standing would be uninhabitable.

The place to be is at the top of the Hancock. It was built on rolling caisons (sp?) with a flexible structure. Have a drink, watch it burn. Just get up there before the elevators shut down.