20 Cool Facts about the New Madrid Seismic Zone
This poster summarizes a few of the more significant facts about the series of large earthquakes that struck the New Madrid seismic zone of southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, and adjacent parts of Tennessee and Kentucky from December 1811 to February 1812.
20 cool facts about the New Madrid Seismic Zone …
This poster summarizes a few of the more significant facts about the series of large earthquakes that struck the New Madrid seismic zone of southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, and adjacent parts of Tennessee and Kentucky from December 1811 to February 1812.
20 Interesting Facts: About Earthquakes on the New Madrid …
The New Madrid earthquakes caused extensive landsliding along about 125 miles of the bluffs on the east side of the Mississippi River north of Memphis. A repeat of these earthquake-triggered landslides today would affect eastern access to the Mississippi River, pipelines, and transmission towers in this area.
1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes - Wikipedia
The 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes were a series of intense intraplate earthquakes beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.2–8.2 on December 16, 1811, followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day. Two additional earthquakes of similar magnitude followed in January and February 1812.
New Madrid Compendium Eyewitness Accounts - CERI - The …
The series of New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812 was one of the most dramatic natural disasters to strike the North American continent. These eyewitness accounts give a glimpse at what was seen and experienced by people as the earthuquakes occurred.
Summary of 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes Sequence
Overview. A Sequence of Three Main Shocks in 1811-1812. This sequence of three very large earthquakes is usually referred to as the New Madrid earthquakes, after the Missouri town that was the largest settlement on the Mississippi River …
THE ENIGMA OF THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKES OF …
The largest earthquakes ruptured at least six (and possibly more than seven) intersecting fault segments, one of which broke the surface as a thrust fault that disrupted the bed of the Mississippi River in at least 2 (and possibly four) places. …it is a …
The enigma of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812
Jan 1, 1996 · The frontier was not then California but the valley of the continent's greatest river, the Mississippi, and the sequence was the New Madrid earthquakes of the winter of 1811–1812. Their described impacts on the land and the river were so dramatic as to produce widespread modern disbelief.
Quake analysis rewrites history books | Nature
Apr 29, 2010 · The quakes struck the New Madrid fault zone 200 kilometres south of St Louis, Missouri, in 1811 and 1812, long before modern seismometers allowed accurate measurements of their intensity.
New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 - Encyclopedia Britannica
New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12, series of three large earthquakes that occurred near New Madrid, Missouri, between December 1811 and February 1812. There were thousands of aftershocks, of which 1,874 were large enough to be felt …