Whenever we see new earthquakes along or near the New Madrid Fault Zone in the south central United States, we are reminded of the historical record-breaking earthquakes that have occurred there and the danger that still exists.
Recently, beginning June 17 there have been a handful of earthquakes (seven – according to USGS) along and near the Mississippi River in New Madrid County Missouri and immediately across the border into Tennessee. The largest, having been a magnitude 3.3, occurred first on the east bank of the river near Tiptonville Chute in Lake County TN. Since then, earthquakes have been popping up and down the region. A question is, has something been set in motion?
The New Madrid Seismic Zone is located in a region including southeast Missouri, southwest Kentucky, western Tennessee, and northeast Arkansas.
The New Madrid Fault Zone is famously known for the earthquakes of 1811 to 1812 and registered four of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in North America. They are believed to have been magnitude 8 earthquakes with one of them possibly as high as magnitude 8.6, while some say one may have been a magnitude 9.0 or larger (7-Feb-1812) which completely destroyed New Madrid, Missouri and rang church bells in Boston and New York City, one thousand miles away.
Many people are not aware of the New Madrid fault zone, and have no idea that a major earthquake could occur there, and could be one which has the potential to deliver devastation as never experienced before in the U.S.
Is it coincidence that the military police are presently rolling tanks in the streets of St. Louis as part of a training exercise?
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Thats one strange area – saw the documentary on tv the other night with the areas with the sand geysers… That big earthquake all those years ago must have been a monster with the ground acting the way they showed it!!!
I’ve seen the sand geysers documentary too. It’s mind boggling to realize the magnitude as to what happened.
The recent earthquakes our neighbours New Zealand had a while back was only a Mag 6 – and the devastation that the city took on was immense, even with earthquake fortified buildings the city came down in a mess, so one could see what would truly come of another ‘big one >8 Mag’ in the New Madrid zone.
I live in a area thats built on 40′ of sand and just next door to the Southern Hemisphere’s largest extinct volcano ‘Mt Warning’ – we’ve had some minor tremors (<3 mag) that no-one can physically feel; but we're nowhere near any areas that spawn these earthquake swarms and thankfully geologically pretty safe.
Just got to keep an eye out to sea for those pesky Tsunami's, generated by everyone else in the world…
new Madrid certainly is a concern but this past year has seen two small quakes in mineral VA.who could of guessed that central Va would get quakes.we’re half hr from mineral now this new threat is front burner.