Mar 192011
With earthquakes on people’s minds, the following might be of interest:
Amid the outpouring of concern for disaster-ravaged Japan, experts claimed that many more areas of America are at risk from catastrophic earthquakes than most people realise. Most Americans associate quakes with the West Coast, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. But 39 out of the 50 states – including New York and Tennessee – have moderate to high seismic hazard risk.