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the New Madrid region, but it is only a matter of time before a major damaging earthquake occurs. USGS and CERI scientists estimate that there is a 25-40% chance of a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake occurring in the next 50 years. If a strong New Madrid earthquake, with a magnitude equal to the historic 1811-1812 Back in 1811 and 1812, there were four earthquakes along the New Madrid fault zone there were so immensely powerful that they are still talked about today. Those earthquakes opened deep fissures in the ground, caused the Mississippi River to run backwards, and were reportedly felt more than 1,000 miles away. Eliza Bryan - Letter to Lorenzo Dow (1816) Eliza Bryan (1780-1866) One of the most important eyewitnesses to the New Madrid earthquakes related her experiences in 1816 to the prominent Methodist evangelist Lorenzo Dow. Bryan's letter was published in Dow's biographical book History of Cosmopolite. Find great deals on eBay for new madrid earthquake. Shop with confidence. Skip to main content. eBay Logo: The New Madrid Earthquake: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812 by Norma Hayes Bagnall. $7.24. 10% off 4+ Buy It Now. Nicholas and his wife were downriver from Louisville taking on coal in mid-December, 1811, when the ground started shaking with the first New Madrid quake. On Feb 6, several boats which had waited for upstream Ohio river ice to break, were just arriving in the New Madrid area. They had a rude awakening, and some found themselves racing UP-river The New Madrid seismic region in the central Mississippi Valley hides one of the greatest earthquake danger in the central United States. Four earthquakes of around magnitude 8 occurred in this seismic area in the winter of 1811-12, and this region continues to exhibit the highest level of seismicity in the central and eastern states of the Nation. The maximum documented intensity for both earthquakes on December 16, 1811, is MM intensity VIII at Richmond, Kentucky. 1812, Januar