That earthquake fault is at the Western end of TN...I live hours away, but a giant quake there would be felt here...This area has lots of limestone caves under it, and Son said this ridge would just flatten out, probably...Over near the fault line in MO. theres lots of sandy areas, which would just kinda turn into liquid, I heard. Well, I've lived in TN most of my 74 years, and have never felt more than a tremor or two.... Felt a pretty good one when I lived in Ill..I heard it coming..kind of a rumble....told everyone "I do believe we're having an earthquake !' Everyone else came up with various things they thought was causing the rolling noise, but I discounted all the obvious causes..turns out I was right....Awesome.....I could never live in an area that had lots of quakes....I have a sister and her clan living in Sikeston, MO and another sister getting ready to move there....So they would be almost dead center....Betty's farm is sand based...unlike their other properties a few miles away..I think she said the ground there was 'gumbo'...grows anything...I wonder if the sandy area came about when the earthquake happened that formed Reel foot Lake ? I've read quite a bit about it and know there were places where sand spewed into the air..formed sandy areas called 'sand blows'... Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:34:27 -0500 "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net> writes: > The New Madrid Fault and Mississippi Valley Earthquake in the 1800's was in the Tennessee area, wasn't it. I need to do some re-reading about it. > juanita > ____________________________________________________________ Banks Forced to Forgive Credit Card Debt See how much of your debt could be settled! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d819575b89b210ff3m06duc