Earthquake prediction: Eastern US: big earthquake risk map: Charleston, South Carolina, New Madrid, Missouri

New science reports record repeated earthquakes in the same places in Eastern United States:
Charleston, South Carolina, and New Madrid, Missouri and six other places. See below for list of earthquake risk places in Eastern United States
Go back millions of years: Scientists report eight areas in the Eastern United States with high earthquake risk. Places where big earthquakes happen again and again and again.
Nuclear plant location research explains the earthquake risk: The Japan experience of the huge earthquake of 11 March 2011 shows what can happen when you build a nuclear plant in an area of repeated earthquakes.
The US research described here was started before the four US-made General Electric nuclear plants melt-down in Japan, after the Japan Tohuku Great Earthquake and tsunami.
Looking for safe place for nuclear plants in the Eastern United States: The research was paid for by power plant investors, looking for safe places for nuclear plants in the Eastern United States. Some would say no safe place exists for a nuclear plant. But the electricity profit motive and the military market for plutonium - the by-product of nuclear electricity ( aside from nuclear waste), drives construction of new nuclear plants. Governments take the risk. So its a nice non-risk earner for stock market investors.
Nuclear plants so risky that no insurer will insure them: Westinghouse, General Electric and other nuclear plant equipment sellers and plant managers chat-up Governments so taxpayers to pay for the risk and also to pay for costs of clean up of the waste.
The seller takes the profit. About 20 new plants are planned for Eastern United States. It already has about 92 already in place.
Eight places not safe: The sellers have to prove to nuclear regulators the location of the nuclear plant is safe from earthquakes.
Buzz word for earthquake risk forecast is "RLME": The nuclear plant investors' research found eight earthquake risk areas. Geologists searched for evidence on previous earthquakes. They used all kinds of methods, and looked back in history, millions of years.
Earthquake risk location forecasts described in science-speak: "RLME sources are the locations of repeated (more than one) large-magnitude (M 6.5) earthquakes in the historical or paleoearthquake record....( to make) Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analyses (PSHAs) for nuclear facilities". A PSHA estimates the earthquake risk for an area.

Eastern United States hosts five secret research nuclear places and 96 commercial power reactors .

High earthquake risk areas:

1. New Madrid, Mo.,
2. Charleston, S.C.
3. Charlevoix (lower St. Lawrence),
4. Cheraw Fault (High Plains in southeastern Colorado),
5. Meers Fault (southwestern Oklahoma),
6. Reelfoot Rift – Marianna (Marianna, Ark., 75 km southwest of Memphis, Tenn.),
7. Reelfoot Rift – Commerce Fault Zone (Tamms, Ill. to Qulin, Mo.,) and
8. Wabash Valley (Indiana and Illinois).

More earthquakes expected here: Its strange but true.
Of the Charleston earthquake 31 August 1886, science reports say 'Neither the 1886 nor the prehistoric (i.e., pre-1886) earthquakes in the Charleston area can be definitively attributed to any specific fault or fault zone at the present time:.
The September 1 (August 31 local time), 1886: A 6.9, earthquake at Charleston, South Carolina, area was the largest historical earthquake ever recorded in the Eastern United States.
Fountains of sand: Strong ground shaking during the 1886 Charleston earthquake resulted in extensive ground liquefaction "sand-blow craters at the ground surface.
Earthquakes repeatedly at the same place: Geologists found
pre-1886 sand-blow craters and other paleoliquefaction throughout coastal South Carolina also evidence of strong ground motions during prehistoric large earthquakes in the region.
Charleston area only: Expect more big earthquake here Based on study of liquefaction and paleoliquefaction.. the Charleston seismic zone is a area of risk for more big earthquakes.

Many reports of Aurora Borealis: These can appear before earthquakes. But only areas of earthquake risks get the earthquakes. The big New Madrid earthquake of 1886 was preceded by an Aurora Borealis. The central and south east of the United States do not get so many earthquakes compared with really high risk areas of California, Alaska, and Hawaii, But when they do thes come as shockers as they happen in places where no faults are known.

Unknown reason for earthquakes under a plate: The area of the New Madrid earthquake has something strange under it; a huge circular magnetic anomaly. This kind of anomaly appears in oil and gas exploration. It can mean an area of high heat - may be a possible volcano, or a huge lump of ore - copper, for example.
Anomaly measurable magnetically, in micro Teslas: .Something measurably magnetic, in micro Teslas. In this case whatever it is appears to sit under a layer of rock, and presses up under the rock. One idea describe it as a part of the plate which has bent under pressure from the plate edges, This happen in India where the India plate bends up in a solid wave; it creates a bulge 450 meters high across the whole of India.