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 ...

Television trucks parked near Main Street, New Madrid, Missouri on Sunday, Dec. 2, 1990. Members of the media are in New Madrid, Mo., for the Iben Browning projected earthquake on December 3. (AP ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – For generations, rural residents in Northwest Louisiana have claimed that during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 the Red River flowed backward, flooded Native ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Grunwald looks toward the Mississippi River on Dec. 11 while standing outside of the New Madrid Historical Museum of which he ...

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Style's weekly series on travel in Arkansas detours briefly into southeast Missouri to an attraction focused on the devastating 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes. They shook and ...

NEW MADRID — The town of New Madrid seems obsessed with the fault lines that loom under its surface. Signs with the slogan “It’s Our Fault” line the road into town, past the cotton fields and defunct ...

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- The town of New Madrid seems obsessed with the fault lines that loom under its surface. Signs with the slogan "It's Our Fault" line the road into town, past the cotton fields and ...