After the Eastern states had the earthquake this past week, this outstanding article was written including info on the massive undertaking in the National Level Exercise 11  ( NLE 11 )  held in May with simulated earthquake disaster. It was held by the Federal gov't.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/quake-nightmare/

Here's a portion of the article.....National Level Exercise 11, or NLE 11, was, in essence, a replay of a disaster that happened 200 years earlier. On Dec. 16, 1811, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit the New Madrid fault line, which lies on the border region of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. It’s by far the largest earthquake ever to strike the United States east of the Rockies. Up to 129,000 square kilometers [50,000 square miles] were hit with “raised or sunken lands, fissures, sinks, sand blows, and large landslides,” according to the U.S. Geological Service. “Huge waves on the Mississippi River overwhelmed many boats and washed others high onto the shore. High banks caved and collapsed into the river; sand bars and points of islands gave way; whole islands disappeared.” People as far away as New York City were awakened by the shaking.


Thanks, Lynnette