New Madrid Seismic Zone News

New Technology Offers Clues Into New Madrid Fault

New research by the U.S. Geological Society suggests that while the New Madrid Seismic Zone hasn’t produced a major earthquake in more than 200 years, the risk remains. The Southeast Missourian reports that scientists used new technology to develop high-resolution …

Mississippi County Officials Urge Quake Prep

Robert Latham remembers the scare in 1989 when climatologist Iben Browning predicted a major earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone centered in southern Missouri. Browning specified Dec. 2 or 3, 1990, as the most likely days in a forecast …

Two Centuries After New Madrid Quakes

The United States was still a young nation when three major earthquakes rocked the central Mississippi River valley in the winter of 1811-1812. Chimneys fell, the earth heaved and church bells rang hundreds of miles away, set off by the …