COUNTDOWN: ELEVEN STATES Facing Disaster from New Madrid Fault

Earthquakes that occur in the New Madrid Seismic Zone potentially threaten parts of eleven American states: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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The news media is not warning people to get out.

In a report filed in November 2008, The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States," further predicting "widespread and catastrophic" damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure.

The earthquake is expected to also result in many thousands of fatalities, with more than 4,000 of the fatalities expected in Memphis alone.