Local emergency management officials and first responders gathered Tuesday at the Wright Township Fire Department to prepare for what experts say ...

Greene County is in both the New Madrid and Wabash Valley Seismic earthquake zones. Many of the strongest quakes in recent ...

Much of the Midwest sits on a major faultline called the New Madrid, which saw one of the most destructive earthquakes in history in 1812. There are hundreds of minor quakes along the faultline every ...

An earthquake brought tremors across the Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri border earlier, a reminder that much of the Midwest ...

“In the eastern U.S., New Madrid is the most active, and there is actually one in eastern Canada that is almost as active as New Madrid. We are number 3 in East Tennessee in terms of the frequency of ...

The three-day drill scenario simulated an 8.4 magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid Seismic Fault and involved 500 people ...

Missouri is the site of some of the largest earthquakes in U.S. history. The New Madrid fault runs through Southeast Missouri and produces a couple hundred small quakes every year. Most of these ...

But that is all but certain not to be the case forever. The New Madrid Fault Zone has a long, legendary history of catastrophic earthquakes—and seismologists say it's overdue for a big one.

There were 16 typical earthquakes along the New Madrid Seismic Zone in Missouri in October, plus 4 events that were not.