could near record flooding at New Madrid trigger quakes?
Posted by heartland chris on May 03, 2011 at 06:08:47:

The link is to the Mississippi River guage at New Madrid. The forecast is for record flooding. When I flew across the country in 1993 and looked out I could see that those record floods made a very wide zone...kms wide (maybe 3 km?). Maybe not likely, but I wonder if either the load or increased pore pressure could trigger any quakes? Just large enough to show up on the USGS list (M2.5+). Beth was talking about Texas quakes on another thread: there is now an uneven line or arc of quakes from Gulf of California to west Texas to central teaxes to Oklahoma to Arkansas to a M2.1 west of New Madrid. I think this means nothing.
Chris

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     ● Re: could near record flooding at New Madrid trigger quakes?  - Beth  20:25:51 - 5/3/2011  (78711)  (1)
        ● Re: could near record flooding at New Madrid trigger quakes?  - Skywise  23:51:19 - 5/3/2011  (78714)  (1)
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                             ● OK, did some math... - Skywise  22:48:53 - 5/5/2011  (78730)  (1)
                                ● Re: OK, did some math... - Canie  11:20:48 - 5/6/2011  (78731)  (2)
                                   ● Re: OK, did some math... - Beth  20:49:06 - 5/7/2011  (78754)  (0)
                                   ● Re: OK, did some math... - heartland chris  06:44:20 - 5/7/2011  (78736)  (1)
                                      ● Re: OK, did some math... - Skywise  22:28:31 - 5/7/2011  (78755)  (0)