5.8 earthquake hit Virginia

Stack24 · Aug 25, 2011

I'm in NY for business and didn't feel anything when it happened. A lot of people said they did but I guess since I was in the hotel i didn't feel much.

No Chance · Aug 25, 2011

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I wasn't trying to be funny, not after having read The Rift, by Walter Jon Williams, a work that should have been more widely read and cries out for a movie version. It's a "disaster" novel, a "what if" that posits another New Madrid. It starts out with a short take on the original quake, which was one of the most massive, destructive, powerful quakes in American history, giving you a taste of a future potential New Madrid quake. Then, we're in the "present day," and we have another one with incredible consequences. It's very believable when you consider the massive population in the area, the berms and dikes holding in the Mississippi during so much of its length, the cities, the nuclear power plants, and the fight for survival of some interesting characters. I really enjoyed it. Williams is a terrific SF writer (read his trilogy, Dread Empire's Fall... fantastic!), so this was a departure for him. It'll scare the hell out of you.
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You made it sound like a good read so I just ordered it. Thanks

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