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The capital city of Arkansas, Little Rock, would also face damage. [4] A major natural gas pipeline is located near the fault, and could be devastated by any such earthquake. [1] Tennessee and Mississippi would possibly be affected as well. [6] In 2006, a letter to the Seismological Research Letters indicated the possible existence of a fault ...
New Madrid fault and earthquake-prone region considered at high risk today. The 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes were a series of intense intraplate earthquakes beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.2–8.2 on December 16, 1811, followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day.
Earthquakes in the New Madrid and Wabash Valley seismic zones from 1974 to 2002, with magnitudes larger than 2.5. The zone had four of the largest earthquakes in recorded North American history, with moment magnitudes estimated to be as large as 7 or greater, all occurring within a 3-month period between December 1811 and February 1812. Many of ...
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1887 Sonora earthquake Arkansas: 7.6–7.9 December 16, 1811 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes
A powerful earthquake hit the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, damaging buildings in the capital, Port Vila, including one housing the U.S. Embassy. A witness said bodies were seen in the city.
The Guy–Greenbrier earthquake swarm occurred in central Arkansas beginning in August 2010. [2] The epicenters of earthquakes in the swarm showed a linear distribution, with a clear overall shift in activity towards the southwest with time, [3] and the largest event in the swarm was the 2011 Arkansas earthquake, at 4.7 on the moment magnitude scale.
The state typically experiences between 10 and 20 earthquakes above magnitude 2.0 each year, said Andy Newman, a professor of geophysics at Georgia Tech. As for what’s behind the recent shakes ...