and Missouri border last weekend, a reminder that much of the Midwest sits on a major faultline called the New Madrid, which ...

Centered in New Madrid, Missouri, the seismic zone “is ... In the winter of 1811 and 1812, there were three earthquakes in the area “estimated to be between magnitude 7 and 8,” according ...

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 ...