They were considered the “biggest earthquakes in American history,” New Madrid officials said. Should another one occur along the underground fault line, it could be “catastrophic ...

Being right on top of fault lines, each school district’s seismicity was found to be high or very high. Experts aren’t certain when the New Madrid faults will see another major earthquake. They’re ...

The minor earthquake near Jackson occurred on the New Madrid Fault Line, the fault zone that the Mid-South, including Memphis, sits on. Two days earlier, a minor earthquake registered near Dyersburg.

Most school buildings in southeast Missouri are not reinforced and are vulnerable to collapse if a major earthquake were to ...