A repeat of the quakes that devastated New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811 and 1812 could injure or kill 86,000 people across three ...
The most powerful earthquakes in the recorded history of the eastern United States did not strike California or Alaska. They struck the middle of the continent, along a buried fault system centered ...
Most Americans, when they think about earthquake risk, picture California. The shaking ground, the cracked freeways, the rattling dishes in San Francisco kitchens. It's a familiar image, almost ...
MISSOURI — When most people think of earthquakes, they think of California fault lines. But the most active earthquake zone east of the Rocky Mountains runs straight through the middle of the country ...