I'm looking for a science fiction short story (posibly a novellete)
about an earthquake stiking the US and turning the midwest into a sea.
the story was a collaboration between 2 writers and was featured as
the last story in a "Best of" Anthology.

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Clarification of Question by kinetic1974-ga on 21 Jul 2004 03:27 PDT

The new Madrid run sounds close, it might have been the short story
that prequeled the novel.

but it's still not what I'm looking for.

Here's a collaborative effort. What follows is a review of the story -

Clarke, Arthur C. and Mike McQuay. Richter 10. (M, B) Lewis Crane is
the only member of his family who survived the Los Angeles earthquake
of 1994. He is now a seismologist and is sure a Richter 10 quake is
coming. He must get people to believe him or America and the world
will never be the same.

this was located at - http://www.mppl.lib.in.us/yaSCIFI.htm

There's this one called "The Rift" that I remember. But it's not a
collaborative effort.

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue122/books.html

Would it by chance be "The New Madrid Run" by Michael Reisig? The
story is about an earquake along the New Madrid fault in Northeast
Arkansas/Southeast Missouri that annhilates a large portion of the
United States and turns the entire Mississippi basin into the Gulf of
Mexico.

Let me know if this it's the one. If not, it's still an excellent book
and I highly recommend it to those who are interested in this type of
fiction.

AMAZON
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0965124010/002-4179898-4097624?v=glance

READ THE FORWARD
The New Madrid Run - FOREWORD 
http://michael-reisig.com/chap1.html
http://michael-reisig.com/nmr.html


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