The Next Big Earthquake?

There are plenty of places in the U.S. that could be next (from The Blaze):

The New Madrid Fault (St. Louis, Cincinnati, Memphis. . . basically the middle of America) – within the next century. An expert at St. Louis University claims the earthquake in Japan shook the planet so hard that halfway around the world, the city of St. Louis moved up and down a quarter of an inch.

Oakland, California – You’ve got 25 years of worry ahead.

The Cascadia Fault (Cascadia Subduction Zone, spanning 600 miles from British Columbia to Northern CA) - Possibly sooner than Oakland.

And don't forget the Newport/Inglewood fault that runs through Los Angeles and down the coastline right near the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant. That one's supposed to be capable of a 7.0.

And then there's "The Big One", expected to occur along the San Andreas Fault, beginning somewhere around El Centro and breaking for a couple of hundred miles to the north.  That could yield an 8+ and would leave the hugely populated Southern California area in a real mess.

None of those scenarios have a happy ending.