From Dec. 16, 1811, to Feb. 7, 1812, three major earthquakes violently ... A swath of marshes became the 15,000-acre Reelfoot Lake. The earthquakes were so powerful they were felt in South ...

Geologists have long blamed the New Madrid earthquakes on the Reelfoot Rift, a 500-million-year-old area of weakness in the crust. But the newfound faults lie outside the rift. “Maybe the reason ...

From the rugged spine of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the fertile and flat Mississippi River plains, Tennessee is a land of contrasts. The Volunteer State is also one of the widest in the US ...