New Madrid, Missouri, was terrorized by its fault line in the early 19th century, and earthquakes are still the region's ...

The New Madrid Fault zone, located in the central United States, has recently experienced an increase in earthquake activity, ...

Buildings shaking, dishes rattling, windows popping and crevices forming in the earth. To Quad-Citians, this may sound like a scene from a Hollywood movie or a news report about a California ...

A swarm of earthquakes rattled along the New Madrid fault line, sparking fear of the “big one” shaking the area known for tremors. Centered in New Madrid, Missouri, the seismic zone “is the ...

“It’s amazing how many people don’t know about the New Madrid fault line, they think the only earthquakes are in California, and so it’s quite an educational trip for them when they come here.

While the New Madrid Seismic Zone is around 500 miles from Iowa's most populous city of Des Moines, a major earthquake there could still cause significant damage to infrastructure in the Hawkeye State ...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — If you lived near New Madrid, Missouri in 2000, it would cost just $57 a year to insure your home against an earthquake. With seismic faultlines under your feet that could ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

An earthquake has struck California's Bay Area right along a fault line experts now fear may be the surprise cause of the long-awaited 'Big One.' The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the 3.2 ...

California has experienced three earthquakes in the last 24 hours in an area being closely monitored for a major quake. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the seismic activity along the San ...

The Cascadia fault line is the focus of the new study conducted by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It breaks down the flooding potential a 9.0 earthquake could bring to the ...