Centered in New Madrid, Missouri ... residents in southeast Missouri felt the fault’s effects first-hand. Seven earthquakes shook the area in a nine-hour span, according to data from the ...

Native Americans living in NWLA at the time did not have written language when the New Madrid earthquakes struck. That makes researching the effects of the New Madrid earthquakes of Dec. 16 ...

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

NEW MADRID — At the New Madrid Historical Museum there’s an earthquake simulator where visitors get to play engineer. At their disposal are cylindrical wooden sticks and rectangular boards that can be ...

Disasters can strike at any moment. So, what happens when you know a disaster is coming, but you can’t say precisely when it ...

ST. LOUIS – On Feb. 7, 1812, there was perhaps the most notable of three large earthquakes that shook the New Madrid seismic zone that winter. The shaking was felt locally in St. Louis and forever ...