Transcript: SEN. MARK PRYOR CHAIRMAN SEN. MARK PRYOR HOLDS A HEARING ON NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS

Article: New Madrid quake: When the Mississippi ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... in the small town of New Madrid, the quake was felt ... reaches to almost in the New Madrid region. Not only was ... soil plummeted into the Mississippi River and sulfurous fumes ... shocks cause the city of New Madrid to drop 15 feet and ...

Article: Quakes nothing new for river valley; One New Madrid ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  June 21, 2005 ;     636 words ... ... earthquakes shook the Mississippi River Valley. Of the ... associated with the New Madrid fault zone earthquakes ... Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes ... visit the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium ... Missouri, the New Madrid earthquakes ...

Article: Midwest quake a serious risk, experts warn. (earthquake along the ...
Business Insurance;  November 10, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... in anyone's lifetime. The New Madrid seismic zone itself is a system ... at magnitude 8 struck around New Madrid, a tiny Mississippi River town. The shocks reportedly ... Charleston, Mo., northeast of New Madrid, in 1895. Small quakes have ...

Article: Get ready for the big one, southern Illinois: Profs take to the ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 21, 2005 ;     484 words ... ... other PBS stations around the New Madrid seismic zone, which is a ... could hit any time along the New Madrid Fault. That zone was blamed ... temblors shook the area around New Madrid, Mo., causing the Mississippi River to run backward for a time ...

Article: It's their fault // But if the New Madrid quakes, ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 21, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... first of the three great New Madrid Earthquakes erupted on ... been splintered, most of New Madrid, Mo., had fallen into the Mississippi River, and what had been a swamp ... earthquake zone known as the New Madrid Fault, three cracks in ...

Article: New Madrid
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      435 words ...New Madrid , city (2000 pop. 3,334), seat of New Madrid co., extreme SE Missouri, on Mississippi River at the sweeping New Madrid Bend; inc. 1808. A river port, the city is ...

Article: Adventures through deep time; the Central Mississippi ...
SciTech Book News;  December 1, 2009 ;     485 words ... ... Adventures through deep time; the Central Mississippi River Valley and its earthquakes. (CD-ROM ... with the mysterious great earthquakes of New Madrid, Missouri that tore up the Mississippi River Valley. The accompanying disk contains ...