[Rockhounds] Rock and Roll!!!

[Axel Emmermann]

 > > I have a couple of questions. What do you think the water in the 
> > Mississippi did during those 20 seconds?
> 
> It flowed south towards the Gulf of Mexico.
> 

Not always ;-)))
On several occasions (during and after 8+ quakes) it seems that the
Mississippi has been running in reverse direction, bypassing bends, over
hundreds of miles and creating lakes and rapids. 
Church bells rang from the quake in places as far away as Chicago and
Charleston SC.
These kind of quakes are massive and of mind-boggling power and occur every
few centuries or so. They can reshape the topology of state-size regions in
a matter of seconds. People don't like to dwell on the destructive nature of
these juggernauts, especially the people that live between Memphis and St.
Louis or around Reelfoot lake.

Axel