--- Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com> wrote:
> That's the one that created Reelfoot Lake in TN...caused the Mississippi to
> run backward for a day or two while water was opened to a new space to fill.
> I don't think many people were hurt in it though, unlike the one in San
> Francisco in 1906 (?) that pretty well destroyed most of SF.
That's because of the population density along the Mississippi in the middle
of the 19th C. When the next one like that hits, it will affect millions.
-ethan
(who lives in Ohio and has experienced several (small) perceptible earthquakes
there)
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Received on Mon Jun 11 2001 - 17:42:06 BST