Rock and Roll

The New Madrid Fault System

By Stephanie Osborn

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The New Madrid Fault Zone is a large area in the central United States consisting of a couple of main faults and numerous secondary faults, as well as other significant geological structures and features. It produced an historic series of severe quakes in the winter of 1811-12, and it continues active to this day. It has a danger potential possibly exceeding that of the San Andreas fault plate boundary, but few people have ever heard of it. How did it form, what areas are in danger from it, and why is it so dangerous?

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Writing Rock and Roll

14 August 2017

This all started out as an email discussion of scientific stuff. I do those a lot. And since I grew up close enough to the New Madrid fault zone to feel quite a few quakes as a kid (including one good-sized one that rattled the house), it had become a personal study of mine anyway, and one of the main reasons I picked up an undergraduate minor and a graduate subspecialty in geology. Then I got a request to blog it (that should go up in the Aug/Sep 2017 timeframe!) and THEN I got a request to gin it up as a presentation for the science track of a science fiction convention in Chattanooga, held each summer. LibertyCon has been very good to me, so when they asked, I did it.

Then the attendees started asking if this was going to be an ebook or something, so at the end of the presentation, I asked the (packed!) audience for a show of hands: How many wanted me to put it up as an ebook?

I think every hand in that very large room went up. If it wasn't, it was close to it.

So I came back home and did a lot more research and study: a book needs a bunch more information in it than a 1-hour talk, to be worthwhile. And so here it is. I hope you enjoy it, and more, I hope I'm able to pass on a little of what I learned, in an interesting fashion!

More to come...

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