Dissing the New Madrid Fault

Cecil’s current output regarding the shaking of a steam roller

Given that the New Madrid Fault produced some of the most intense earthquakes this nation has ever experienced, this is a completely silly statement. There are other faults one might prefer to pick on as being relatively wimpy. :smack:

Yeah, but what’s it done for us lately? :slight_smile:

I think the point was that in the last (approximately) 200 years it has been a fault producing much smaller earthquakes. I think, but am not certain, that Cecil was trying to pick a fault that people would know by name, and as it happens has been fairly low in temblorosity in the time of anyone living today.

In a closely related note, I thought Slug’s illustration for the seizure detection dogs was especially funny.

Stop making up plausible-sounding words!

http://www.google.com/search?q=temblorosity

"Your search - temblorosity - did not match any documents. "

It’s nothing more than a sniglet, and entirely cromulent too.