What About “The Big One” and Tennessee?
Posted by: Blue Collar Muse in Blogroll, Common Sense, Economics, Family, Health Care, Homeland Security, Infrastructure Issues, Tennesee TipsAs 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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