New Madrid Fault Line May One Day Divide the Country in Half

Yes, there is something much worse than dividing the country in half politically. It is an earthquake, so strong, it could divide the US, literally, in half. During the Q Crew Radio Show, Dave had no idea that the Tri-State is poisoned on a potentially very dangerous fault line. According to a blog that our FB friend, Mike, sent to us, the New Madrid Fault Line could develop disastrous earthquakes like the modern earth has never seen.

The blog from, freedom outpost.com, had this to say,

In October 2009, a team composed of University of Illinois and Virginia Tech researchers headed by Amr S. Elnashai, funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), considered a scenario where all three segments of the New Madrid fault ruptured simultaneously with a total earthquake magnitude of 7.7. The report found that there would be significant damage in the eight states studied – Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee – with the probability of additional damage in states farther from the NMSZ. Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri would be most severely impacted, and the cities of Memphis, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri would be severely damaged. The report estimated 86,000 casualties, including 3,500 fatalities; 715,000 damaged buildings; and 7.2 million people displaced, with 2 million of those seeking shelter, primarily due to the lack of utility services. Direct economic losses, according to the report, would be at least $300 billion.

But, the simulation was only of a 7.7 magnitude quake. The threat of much larger earthquakes is a real danger. Here are some of the scenarios that resulted from a 5 day Federal Government simulation of a much larger earthquake.

In May, the federal government simulated an earthquake so massive, it killed 100,000 Midwesterners instantly, and forced more than 7 million people out of their homes.