On the fateful morning of December 16, 1811, the citizens of New Madrid, Missouri received one of the most jolting and upsetting shocks of their innocent lives. As the dawn hours rolled in, a whopping earthquake hit and proceeded to turn the community inside-out; historians now estimate that the cataclysm checked in at 8 on the Richter scale. But that day only represented the beginning: additional calamities transpired in the wake of the first, and the largest actually caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards. That ...
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On the fateful morning of December 16, 1811, the citizens of New Madrid, Missouri received one of the most jolting and upsetting shocks of their innocent lives. As the dawn hours rolled in, a whopping earthquake hit and proceeded to turn the community inside-out; historians now estimate that the cataclysm checked in at 8 on the Richter scale. But that day only represented the beginning: additional calamities transpired in the wake of the first, and the largest actually caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards. That provided the first series of insights that a system of seismically active earthquake faults lie buried beneath the said body of water. Historians and seismologists now anticipate that a second quake can and will occur at any time; this program travels back to the early 19th century event and uses insights gleaned from that to speculate on the similar calamity that may lie ahead. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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