At 2:15 a.m. on December 16, 1811, residents of the frontier town of New Madrid, in what is now Missouri, were jolted from their beds by a violent earthquake. The ground heaved and pitched ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – For generations, rural residents in Northwest Louisiana have claimed that during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 the Red River flowed backward, flooded ...

A swarm of earthquakes rattled along the New Madrid fault line, sparking fear of the “big one” shaking the area known for tremors. Centered in New Madrid, Missouri, the seismic zone “is the most ...

Earthquake experts provided the first public look Tuesday at a new tool that projects ... that the New Madrid fault system produced over a period of weeks in 1811 and 1812, when Missouri’s ...

THE BIG ONE WAS ABOUT TO ROCK NEW MADRID ... history between December 1811 and February 1812.For Brian Blake, the executive director of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC ...