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Mar 21, 2024 · Canva. It's quietly been a busy year along the New Madrid Fault Zone in Missouri. While there have fortunately not been many quakes big enough to garner much attention, the USGS says there have already been at least 63 felt quakes in the region in 2024. If you check the USGS shake map daily, you'll often see a quake or two near the New Madrid ...
4 days ago · Central United States, (The Lake Tribune) – A groundbreaking computer simulation has offered a stark visualization of the potential devastation a magnitude 7.7 earthquake could unleash in the central United States, particularly within the New Madrid Seismic Zone. This detailed simulation, incorporating a comprehensive geologic model of the ...
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Nov 20, 2023 · Published November 20, 2023 at 1:57 PM CST. Listen • 0:53. United States Geological Survey. Data from the U.S Geological Survey shows dozens of earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone, which ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Uptick in New Madrid seismic zone activity within normal ranges. Data from the U.S Geological Survey shows dozens of earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone, which includes far western Kentucky and Tennessee, within the past 30 days. The zone is the most active area in the U.S east of the Rocky Mountains. Gary Patterson, a geologist with the ...
Dec 16, 2011 · MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The United States was still a young nation when three major earthquakes rocked the central Mississippi River valley in the winter of 1811-1812. Chimneys fell, the earth heaved and church bells rang hundreds of miles away, set off by the powerful vibrations from what is now called the New Madrid Seismic Zone. As farmland rolled and shuddered, the shock waves spread as ...
Feb 10, 2022 · LOUIS, Mo. – It is a matter of when and not if there will be a major earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone centered about 160 miles south of St. Louis. Its last major quake came in 1895. Now ...
Jan 24, 2014 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — The New Madrid fault zone in the nation's midsection is active and could spawn future large earthquakes, scientists reported Thursday.
