SPRINGFIELD, ILL. (AP) -- More than 50 officials from local emergency preparedness agencies are learning more about what a major earthquake would do to southern Illinois and how they can prepare.
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency hosted a summit Tuesday in Carterville for representatives of 19 local disaster management offices.
A federal report on planning for an earthquake along the New Madrid fault estimates a 7.7 magnitude quake could take 3,500 lives and displace 7.2 million people.
It would cause $300 billion in direct economic losses within an eight-state area. Indirect losses would be twice that much.
On the Net: http://www.ready.illinois.gov/
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