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The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows. A team from Purdue and Northwestern universities analyzed ...

Millions of people have since watched numerous videos online that took the drills as a cue to share disastrous predictions about a future earthquake in Missouri's New Madrid Seismic Zone.The ...

The multiple earthquakes in 1812 that destroyed New Madrid are estimated to have been between 7.5 and 7.7 magnitude, and only resulted in some structural damage in St. Louis, the most severe of ...

Modern seismologists estimate the 1812 New Madrid earthquake at 7.5 to 8.0 magnitude, though some say it could have rated as much as 8.8.

Aftershocks from devastating earthquakes in the 1800s near the Missouri-Kentucky border and in Charleston, South Carolina, may still be occurring, a study found.

Sure, the Mississippi River flowed backward and church bells rang on the East Coast, but the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes weren't nearly as powerful as generations have been told.

The multiple earthquakes in 1812 that destroyed New Madrid are estimated to have been between 7.5 and 7.7 magnitude, and only resulted in some structural damage in St. Louis, the most severe of ...

New Madrid, MO — A small earthquake brought tremors across the Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri border last weekend, a reminder that much of the Midwest sits on a major faultline called the New ...

Seismic activity is ongoing along the New Madrid fault line. In the 1990s, a few magnitude 4 earthquakes were reported, and ...

Last fall, four members of the New Madrid County Ambulance District drove hundreds of miles to help victims of Florida’s back-to-back hurricanes, Helene and Milton. “There might be a day and time ...