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Press Release: April 8, 2004
Memphis 7.9 Now Available
at
New Madrid Museum
New Madrid, Missouri - Sam Penny,
author and lecturer, announced this week that his novel Memphis
7.9 is now available at The New Madrid Museum at #1 Main Street.
Penny said, "I am very pleased to make this book available
at the historic center of the New Madrid Fault. The history displayed
in this museum tells its visitors that they are standing atop
a very dangerous, active fault. My book bridges the gap to the
present and near future, telling of what will happen the next
time the fault produces a giant earthquake."
The story of Memphis 7.9 focuses
on how some citizens of Memphis have prepared for a major earthquake
on the New Madrid Fault Zone, just 45 miles west, and what happens
to the Mississippi River valley during the first six hours immediately
following a great earthquake of magnitude 7.9. A series of three
major earthquakes of even greater magnitude tore apart the same
region in 1811 and 1812.
Penny explains, "This book
is the result of my explorations of the New Madrid Fault in the
central United States after retirement. My long-time amateur
interest in seismology had developed from life in shaky California.
I found the level of preparedness of Memphis and the attitude
of the locals appalling. I felt they could best be told of the
fate that awaited them in story form rather than as a dull scientific
treatise. I call it Reality Fiction." |
