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New Madrid Seismic Zone graphics, illustrations, diagrams


This company (above) delivers Billions of cubic feet of gas per year through 19 major pipelines. Note how the pipelines cross the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Click map to their website.
"You have four of the five major natural-gas pipelines come right through the soup in New Madrid, the soft alluvial soil," says Gray. "They carry gas all the way to Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh. If (the earthquake) happened during the winter, you're going to have major-league problems on your hands. Try to explain to somebody why you cannot heat a nursing home or keep a hospital warm."
-- Ed Gray, Missouri State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA)
Riverfront Times
An earthquake in the middle of the country, along the precarious New Madrid fault, could have enormous fiscal and energy consequences. "Virtually every natural gas pipeline in the nation is built over that fault," Geller says. "You'll see the explosion reflected off the moon."
--insurancenewsnet.com

The main production areas and pipeline routes for natural gas (American Gas Association) The graphics immediately above and below are from a Feb 09 PDF (3 meg) from Argonne Labs. Note from above... TEN pipelines. From below: several high voltage towers and transmission lines. Widespread multiple failures would take longer to repair.


above: typical pumping station along a gas pipeline.
below: Texas Eastern pipeline crosses Mississippi river at Grand Tower IL
U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Network, 2009 map

http://showme.net/~fkeller/quake/maps3.htm