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As if you didn’t have enough else to worry about, John Scofield takes us on a tour of what to expect in the event of a New Madrid fault earthquake of 7.7 or better on the Richter scale.

FEMA predicted a large earthquake would cause “widespread and catastrophic physical damage” across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee — home to some 44 million people.

Tennessee is likely to be hardest hit, according to the study that sought to gauge the impact of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in order to guide the government’s response.

In Tennessee alone, it forecast hundreds of collapsed bridges, tens of thousands of severely damaged buildings and a half a million households without water.

There’s more good news. Experts say such a quake would be the worst natural disaster for the country in Economic terms. Read it all here …

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