New Madrid Seismic Zone: Why The Middle Of The U.S. Could Be Hit By A HUGE Earthquake

The quakes that hit New Madrid in 1811 and 1812 made church bells ring in New England.

I grew up in New Madrid county. My dad would ride us along the levy and tell the tale of the earthquake and how the river ran backwards. When the water level is low you can see the ruins of Old Madrid.

I live in the New Madrid zone, in Northwest Tennesse. I live about 35 miles from the Mississippi river. The lake that was formed in 1812 is called Reelfoot lake. It is located in Lake County of Tennessee. It is one of the largest natural formed lakes we know was formed by an earthquake we know of. This was what caused the Mississippi to run backwards. The lake has a depth of about 15 to 20 feet in the deepest areas. Where most of the lake is shallow. No more that 7 feet or less. The area of the lake was logged for cypress trees long ago. After the eventual outlawing of cutting cypress trees the area became part of the lake. The best way to experience the lake is tour boats at certain boat docks. Also, fishing is very big part of the region. This lake is also home for hundreds of nesting American Bald Eagles. There is an eagle nursery that helps injured and sick eagles to get well to be released back into the wild. A unique and amazing place to see. Also, the name Reelfoot was given to the lake because the Reelfoot Indian Tribe called this region home. Their whole tribe was wiped out in the region during the earthquake of 1812 and resulting flooding of their habitat. We remember them for the nature loving and hunters they were. A tribute to those who lost their lives to the aftermath of the quake of 1812.

I grew up in OKC. I'm 71 and live in Arkansas now. When I was five years old I was walking to school when all of a sudden the ground started shaking and threw me down. I ran home and asked my mother what happened. She said it was an earthquake. I don't think there was any fracking going on in the late 1950's, but I could be wrong. Ny the way, the last earthquake y'all had was felt felt clear up to where I live in northwest Arkansas.

I have lived in Oklahoma for less than five years and have felt more earthquakes than thirty two years living in the SF Bay Area.

Memphis native here. I felt a few quakes thanks to the New Madrid zone, including one in the 70s which sent us running from a building where I worked downtown. Cars bounced and the parking lot moved like waves during the aftershock. I live near San Francisco now. Yep. The University of Memphis has a seismology department which studies earthquakes in that region.

Anyone else seeing this one-month-old video after our earthquake on the east coast in New Jersey on 4-5-24? Now I’m concerned…

I was sitting on a milk crate while on our country stores phone being told that my mom's sister had passed away when a small quake hit ( New Madrid ) that moved myself and the milk crate two feet across the floor and split the wall on the side of the store.

Something people tend to forget about earthquakes east of the Mississippi is that the rocks here are older and more dense. Faults in the rocks on this side have had time to heal, unlike the west coast. That means the seismic waves travel much further here. That's why an earthquake here would be so much more devastating, even at a lower magnitude than on the west coast.

Oklahoma residents: "YAY! We survived the tornado!" Famous last words before the earthquake

There is absolutely a minor fault line in northern Oklahoma. The USGS had published a paper I had read that said it was initially inconclusive the waste stream injections had reawakened the fault, but I felt earthquakes there in my 16 years BEFORE the industry had taken off. You might need to take another look.

I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I remember there being an earthquake a few weeks ago. My whole apartment was shaking for a minute or so and I thought it was the wind at first, until I looked outside and realized it wasn't windy. That's the only earthquake I can remember actually being noticeable in recent years.

We used to live in Middle TN and our insurance agent put the fear of God in us about New Madrid. Also, Madrid is pronounced with a different accent-, as in MAD-drid.

The New Madrid sizemic zone is much more scary to me than anything in California.

The timing of this is interesting since we are close to the total eclipse event and the one in 1811 followed a total eclipse

I've lived in Oklahoma my whole life, and in the past 5years I've felt far more earthquakes than ever before. And supposedly they've stopped fracking and waste water dumping.... This past weekend we had a flurry of quakes, and they were very noticable. There was 7in one day.

The reason there is a New Madrid, Mo is the original town of Madrid disappeared during the 1811-18112 earthquakes, This zone is actually a rip in the earths crust so it's not like other zones where one plate pushes over another.

That Cape Girardeau pronunciation, woof. It's more like Gerard-doe.

About ten years ago I saw a documentary on the New Madrid fault area and what had occurred and it was frightening. I live in NE and we have our teeny quakes and I used to really feel quakes when we lived in Calif.....but this one, the New Madrid for some reason really scares the crap out of me! 😮

Wow, I read a book called "The Vision" by David Wilkerson, the "Cross and the Switchblade" preacher, who seemed to accurately predict the Japan Tsunami of a few years ago. Your video triggered in my memory another one of his predictions, an Earthquake somewhere in the U.S, where it will be least expected. This book was written in the 1970's. Just wow!