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 ...

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 ...

The minor earthquake near Jackson occurred on the New Madrid Fault Line ... microquake in the Mid-South since September 2024. The largest of these was a 2.8 magnitude earthquake recorded by ...

Wing’s cafeteria is a tornado-safe room, but they do not have a space that is specifically safe for earthquakes (Hannah Schuh/Missourian).