Despite seismic threat, residents prioritize immediate economic struggles over insurance coverage. Only 11% have earthquake ...

Poverty, job loss and high insurance costs have led to a lack of earthquake insurance in a town with a big fault and bigger ...

11 while standing outside of the New Madrid Historical Museum of which he’s the administrator in New Madrid, Mo. “I’ve experienced six earthquakes while living here, and I’d characterize them all as ...

This is the first of an occasional series on the impact of the fault line in New Madrid and the surrounding region. NEW MADRID — The town of New Madrid seems obsessed with the fault lines that ...

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Stevenson’s account of the first New Madrid earthquake in 1811 shows how he perceived the first in a series of quakes that began in the wee hours on Dec. 16, 1811.

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22, 2008, when the ground shook beneath his Blytheville home. A 3.7-magnitude earthquake had rumbled along the southern end of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Pictures rattled on walls, older concrete ...

The December 1811 New Madrid earthquake in southern Missouri was strong enough to ring church bells in Washington, D.C., and be felt by many in Maine. It was probably smaller than the 1906 M7.9 ...