Big Quake in Central US Would Displace Millions
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 17:49
in Earth & Climate
Researchers at the Virginia Tech Center for Technology, Security, and Policy in the National Capital Region, doing a FEMA- funded study to determine the social impacts and disaster response requirements of a catastrophic earthquake on the New Madrid Seismic Zone, found that such a disaster would result in 80,000 injuries and 3,500 fatalities.