For generations, rural residents in Northwest Louisiana have claimed that during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 the Red River flowed backward, flooded Native American villages, and ...
NEW MADRID FAULT (MO-AR-KY-TN) — On this day in 1811, the natural disaster that became known as the New Madrid Earthquakes of ...
2. Magnitude 7.5 San Bernardino, Calif: The massive 1812 earthquake caused devastating damage to the Missions in Southern California, destroying the masonry church at Mission San Juan Capistrano ...
It's the most active area for earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains and in the winter of 1811-1812 produced earthquakes estimated to be of 7 or 8 magnitudes. Starnes noted that the Canton ...
In the winter of 1811 and 1812, according to the USGS, the New Madrid seismic zone "generated a sequence of earthquakes that lasted for several months and included three very large earthquakes est ...
A series of recent earthquakes have been measured at the New Madrid Fault, one of the areas with the most potential for a major disaster, according to the USGS.
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