It was two o'clock in the morning on Dec. 16, 1811, less than a week before Christmas, and many homesteaders new to the ...

Centered in New Madrid, Missouri, the seismic zone “is the most active seismic area in the United States east of the Rocky ...

On this day in 1811, the natural disaster that became known as the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811–1812 began. Centered near New Madrid, Missouri, the earthquake sent shocks for hundreds of miles ...

A series of earthquakes that occurred near New Madrid, Missouri, U.S. between December 1811 and February 1812, it included three large earthquakes and several other tremors through the months.

Missouri and Tennessee saw a string of small earthquakes triggered along the New Madrid fault line. It raises the question ...

The fault is most famous for its earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 that were so strong ... or greater earthquake in the next 50 years in the New Madrid zone. In 2022, the U.S. Department of ...

In the winter of 1811 and 1812 ... They were considered the “biggest earthquakes in American history,” New Madrid officials said. Should another one occur along the underground fault line, ...