The Mississippi around New Madrid fault zone going dry?

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Old plug said:

Wrench I have noticed that. It was fast almost like winter drawdown. Looks like they stopped today. It does not matter with these fish down here. I will be at them tomorrow evening 5 till dark

Yeah the whites are stacked up in a zone about 2 miles down from the flat.  

No problem catching a bunch but I want them up on the flat where I can get at them in the Jon boat with flys.  I hate fly-fishing out of my bass boat, too many cleats, foot pedals, and things to get fly line tangled on.  Plus I don't like fly-fishing from a raised platform, I like my feet closer to the water surface for various reasons.

I don't know why they felt the need to suck 3' of water out of the lake so fast.  Friggin' douchebags!  

[Old plug]

Yeah Wrench I know  thats what you want.I certainly hopecit happens for you. My aim is to tet a monster.. That is the place I caught the 50lb blue. Cannot harly get a smell of a catfish down there anymore much less the big guys that used to come in there under the whites. 

[jdmidwest]

Looks like the fault is shaking, 3.6 yesterday in Manila AR.  

[Al Agnew]

I read a book not long ago by a scientist that says that it's very unlikely that the New Madrid Fault will ever produce another major earthquake.  He says the many little quakes along the fault are all still aftershocks from the big one more than 200 years ago.  I don't remember all the reasons he said that the fault was becoming inactive, but they seemed like good ones as I read them.

[fishinwrench]

Well, if there is indeed a fault line there then someday it's gonna move again, and the odds that it will move more (or less) than it did in the 1800's is 50/50.

When it shifted before there was something that halted the shift, and that something is still there keeping things in the same general position they have been in for 205 years.  Eventually that something is gonna break loose and things will shift again, and again....until everything has settled and no fault line remains.

Personally I'm not any more concerned about a devastating New Madrid quake than I am an asteroid strike.

[MoCarp]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Well, if there is indeed a fault line there then someday it's gonna move again, and the odds that it will move more (or less) than it did in the 1800's is 50/50.

When it shifted before there was something that halted the shift, and that something is still there keeping things in the same general position they have been in for 205 years.  Eventually that something is gonna break loose and things will shift again, and again....until everything has settled and no fault line remains.

Personally I'm not any more concerned about a devastating New Madrid quake than I am an asteroid strike.

 

Or the next Carrington Event 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

[MOPanfisher]

They used to say that little quakes along a fault liNE were a good thing.  It prevented a large energy build up that would hen release in a BIG event.  I don't want any big events.

[Old plug]

There are faults ( cracks all over the planet)  The New Madirid Fault is is what sparked my interest in Earthquake long ago I spent a lot of time down in that region in my younger years I have experienced a few. They were more like a slight vibration.  They were tiny. 

The New Madrid fault  quake was one of the  largest earthquakes ever recorded. There are  many published reports about it. God help everyone in the in St louis and south area when it jams up and does it again. From what I read the earth rock formations in tha area are hard granite. And becaise of thst they will transmit the quake with a lot more force..They have predicted it would destroy most masonay type buildings is stlouis. And it will happen sometime but only God knows when. We should all be thankful for all the little quakes down there. It means the fault is moving smoothly. The.New Madrid fault runs from Noth East Ark All the way into IL east of st louis. But for my money I would bet a lot more on seeing something terrible happen to California. Those massive quakes in Mexico and south America are on the same fault line as Calfonia and is going in that direction. 

Though they deny it. This business of fracking irritates those fault lines.

[snagged in outlet 3]

8 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Personally I'm not any more concerned about a devastating New Madrid quake than I am an asteroid strike.

Yeah don't even talk about hemorrhoid events.

[Old plug]

To me there is no sence to worry it is like death it is going to each of us in time. So try to enjoy it  and have a nice time while your here.