On 12/15/2010 8:03 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
> I am Awful Terrible when it comes to Geography,
> But Isn't that place in AR near that
> really really big EQ which happened
> along the MS River ?
>
> That made it flow backward ?
>
> I read in the ASU library first hand accounts
> of that EQ.
>
> It was most interesting.
>
> There's a lot of people near there today, which
> was not the case in the 1800's.
>
> It seems to me, to be silly for man to
> agitate/instigate mother earth close to
> anything like that.
>
> I think the same way about Long Beach CA
> with all those grasshopper things
> pumping oil out of the ground.
>
> Regards,
> geoff
Geoff,

You are thinking about the New Madrid, MO fault system which is about 
200 miles east of this area. The New Madrid system running basically NE 
to SW (southern IL to Memphis TN) has been quiet since this stuff around 
Guy, AR started about a year ago. There is another fault in AR running 
running basically E-W called the Marianna fault (northeast of 
Guy--basically Jonesboro to Marianna).  In the last week, there was one 
quake on this fault and several on the New Madrid system. In  the 
beginning, they thought that the Guy activity was associated with the 
Marianna fault but now that is falling into disfavor. The  Marianna 
fault (very recently discovered) crosses a lot of gas and oil pipelines 
going in the direction of the NE (to Chicago) and has raised some 
concerns. The number of quakes in the Guy and Sparks, OK area far exceed 
the quakes along the New Madrid system.
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