Beneath the middle of the United States, far from the more famous faults of California, lies a seismic zone capable of producing some of the strongest earthquakes in the country’s recorded history.
Most Americans picture earthquake country as a strip of California coastline, not the flat farmland where Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Kentucky meet. Yet buried beneath that quiet stretch of the ...
The New Madrid earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 were the largest quakes east of the Rocky Mountains in U.S. history. Today, a hypothetical earthquake of a similar size would devastate the region and cause ...
The Midwest’s biggest seismic threat still rumbles quietly hundreds of times each year.