The Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium has a new tool projecting the impacts of potential major earthquakes within the New ...
One of the “worst-case scenarios” with an epicenter in southeast Missouri, near Sikeston, would be the least disastrous of ...
From Dec. 16, 1811, to Feb. 7, 1812, three major earthquakes violently shook part of the central United States. Trees bent and snapped. Sand blows erupted. Chimneys toppled and cabins collapsed.
The New Madrid Seismic Zone, which stretches across several states in the central U.S., was the site of four of the largest earthquakes in continental North American history between December 1811 ...