At 2:15 a.m. on December 16, 1811, residents of the frontier town of New Madrid, in what is now Missouri, were jolted from their beds by a violent earthquake. The ground heaved and pitched, hurling ...

Television trucks parked near Main Street, New Madrid, Missouri on Sunday, Dec. 2, 1990. Members of the media are in New Madrid, Mo., for the Iben Browning projected earthquake on December 3. (AP ...

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Style's weekly series on travel in Arkansas detours briefly into southeast Missouri to an attraction focused on the devastating 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes. They shook and ...

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This sequence of three very large earthquakes is usually referred to as the New Madrid earthquakes, after the Missouri town that was the largest settlement on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Television trucks parked near Main Street, New Madrid, Missouri on Sunday, Dec. 2, 1990. Members of the media are in New Madrid, ...