EARTHQUAKE: Poster.
An earthquake drill was carried out at the University California San Diego Medial Center in San Diego, California November 13, 2008. Millions of Southern Californians took part in an exercise simulating the response to a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the largest-scale earthquake drill in US history.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri
-- People in a
vast seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United States would face
catastrophic damage if a major earthquake struck there and should ensure that
builders keep that risk in mind, a government report said on Thursday.
The
Federal Emergency Management Agency said if earthquakes strike in what
geologists define as the New Madrid Seismic Zone, they would cause "the
highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States."
FEMA
predicted a large earthquake would cause "widespread and catastrophic
physical damage" across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri
and Tennessee
-- home to some 44 million people.
Tennessee is likely to be hardest hit,
according to the study that sought to gauge the impact of a 7.7 magnitude
earthquake in order to guide the government's response.
In
Tennessee
alone, it forecast hundreds of collapsed bridges, tens of thousands of severely
damaged buildings and a half a million households without water.
Transportation
systems and hospitals would be wrecked, and police and fire departments
impaired, the study said.
The
zone, named for the town of New Madrid in Missouri's southeast
corner, is subject to frequent mild earthquakes.
Experts
have long tried to predict the likelihood of a major quake like those that
struck in 1811 and 1812. These shifted the course of the Mississippi
River and rang church bells on the East Coast but caused few
deaths amid a sparse population.
"People
who live in these areas and the people who build in these areas certainly need
to take into better account that at some time there is ... expected to be a
catastrophic earthquake in that area, and they'd better be prepared for
it," said FEMA spokesperson Mary Margaret Walker.
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