Subject: Re: Natural disasters - shifting borders?<br/>
Date: Mar 06, 2003 @ 14:10<br/>
Author: L. A. Nadybal (&quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-206724054">Hi.<br/>
<br/>
Borders running on rivers have been known to change when earthquakes<br/>
change their courses, and the treaty regulating the border provides<br/>
that when a river&#39;s course changes, the border does, too.  <br/>
<br/>
There are substantial stretches of the Mississippi River in the US<br/>
shown on official maps as &quot;border indefinite&quot; between two states<br/>
because of the constantly shifting river.  The Mississippi doesn&#39;t<br/>
generally change as a result of natural disaster (floods would be one,<br/>
however), but in some places, the states seem to have decided to not<br/>
deal with where the border is.  <br/>
<br/>
For riverboat casino operators who want to operate on the river, it<br/>
could be important when one half of a river is in a state that doesn&#39;t<br/>
allow gambling, and when the border changes, if it were to change, it<br/>
would force the boat onto the &quot;wrong&quot; half.<br/>
<br/>
Len Nadybal<br/>
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--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Victor Cantore &lt;drpotatoes@y...&gt;<br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; ok this is a stretch....<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; i heard on the news on sunday that there was a small<br/>
&gt; earthquake on usmx and it got me to thinking.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; has a border ever shifted due to a natural disaster,<br/>
&gt; earthquake or otherwise? what would happen in that<br/>
&gt; case? do treaties address plate tectonics, etc. at<br/>
&gt; all? </span></blockquote></div>