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 ...
Two minor earthquakes struck the New Madrid Seismic Zone in southeast Missouri early Monday morning, with magnitudes of 1.4 ...
"The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the Great ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Residents of Missouri and eight other states in a major seismic zone will commemorate the 201st anniversary of the powerful New Madrid (MAD'-rihd) earthquakes with an ...