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, hurling ...
DIGGINS, Mo. – Hundreds of volunteers gathered in a Diggins church for ‘Show Me Mass Care’ in an effort to prepare for earthquake evacuation from the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Several agencies are ...