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To: Roebear who wrote (93222)8/7/2001 6:50:57 PM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) of 95453
 
The only east Coast earthquakes of any significance, as far as I know, are connected with slumping caused by accumulation of offshore sediments. Charleston SC has had the worst ones, but I was in one in Boston that was pretty good, though it did little damage. Inland, there are occasional minor grunts and groans from the Appalachians, perhaps adjusting slowly as erosion removes layers, or even rebounding from the last continental collision.

St. Louis is a much more likely candidate. The New madrid quake of about 1805 would have leveled much of present St. Louis. There are numerous quakes there, small mostly. But the Mississippi Delta sediments (extending up to Cairo), and possibly even very early beginnings of continental separation, make that a much higher risk area that is commonly recognized.
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