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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Researchers look for evacuation routes after possible large New Madrid quake “Large ... The last extremely large earthquake the fault line had was between 1811 and 1812, through a series ...