New Madrid Fault Getting Active?

[RobertEarl]

Look at all the action from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River on this earthquake map web site from the U of C San Diego.

http://anf.ucsd.edu/recenteqs/

My most recent theory is that eastern America is moving east and will split the country in two in more than a few years. Maybe sooner.

[JaneyVee]

1. We are already 2 separate countries...

One side you have the sane rational Left-Wing, and on the other side you have the RWNJ Mental Patients.

[x2 vancouverite]

4. Anything below the Ohio River

I won't be crying.

[REP]

2. Been "getting active" for at least 20 years

Thats why I moved west, to the San Andreas. We're not built for what the New Madrid can do where I'm from; I feel safer here (I can walk to the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake from my house).

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Perhaps a few million years

Geology does not move that fast outside of a movie script.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Fascinating.

Do you have a website for your most recent theory?

[Autumn]

6. It will be a while. n/t

[highplainsdem]

7. The New Madrid Fault is west of that activity. That's the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (Indiana -

Illinois border) and the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (the activity from W VA to TN).

[TransitJohn]

8. Your most recent theory is wrong.

The Eastern USA is moving West, away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with the rest of North American Plate. You should read some plate tectonics.