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

It is believed that Native Americans were the only people living in NWLA during the earthquakes of 1811 and 1812. The USGS projects a 28-46% chance there will be a New Madrid Zone quake that ...

Right, Yeah. Our geologists who would say it's a deadfall. It's not moving, it's not creeping. But the seismicity has been recorded since 1972 that it's much smaller seismicity, but we have a ...

A swarm of earthquakes hit the New Madrid fault line in the Midwest on Monday. This fault is long overdue for a major quake, but this swarm does not necessarily mean 'The Big One' is coming.

ST. LOUIS – Earlier in the month, Missouri and nearby states saw a string of small earthquakes triggered along the New Madrid fault line. It raises the question many have had: Will the New ...

New Madrid Seismic Zone is the most active seismic ... way we can predict earthquakes,” Tom Pratt, coordinator of the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, told KSDK in July.