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Following information from The Virtual Times

Eyewitness Accounts of the 1811 and 1812 Earthquakes

    • Legend

    • General Description
  • New Madrid seismic zone: Evaluating the hazard In mid America
  • Earthquakes in Indiana - description of the 1811 quake and general descriptions of earthquakes
  • English Hills fault - these faults are outside the area generally considered the "New Madrid fault zone"

    • Maps and Graphics
  • There are many published accounts of the effects of the 1811 and 1812 earthquakes.
    Among these, the best known and most thorough is that of Fuller (1912), which includes an annotated bibliography of the principal publications of the nineteenth century on the subject. In his description of the earthquakes outside the epicentral area, Fuller draws heavily upon the work of Mitchill (1815), who in turn made much use of contemporary newspaper accounts, but without giving specific credit to the sources.

    • Current Seismic Work
  • Broad Band Station Map - high resolution map of the positions of seismographs

    • Newspaper References

    • Institutions involved with the New Madrid Fault Zone
  • Central United States Earthquake Consortium, funded by FEMA - Memphis, TN

    • Scholarly References

    • Photography of the Area
  • Original document from the Territorial Governor and its Cover
    Document dated January 13th, 1814 and signed by the Territorial Governor, William Clark, asks for relief for the "inhabitants of New Madrid County. This was possibly the first example of what would later be the job of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): to restore the order after a major disaster.


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