Posted: 26 Jul 2014 03:06 AM PDT
Buried
in a Wall Street Journal article from about a week ago was a startling
piece of information. According to a Wal-Mart executive, Wal-Mart
“participated in an exercise to prepare for an earthquake on the New
Madrid fault line” earlier this summer. And officials at the U.S.
Geological Survey have just released a report which indicates that they
believe that the New Madrid fault zone has the “potential for larger and
more powerful quakes than previously thought“. So should we be
concerned? Do they know something that we don’t? The USGS also says
that the frequency of earthquakes in the central and eastern portions of
the United States has quintupled over the past 30 years, and that
significant earthquakes have started popping up in areas of the country
that were once extremely quiet. Along with the new report, the USGS
released the following map…
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