Nature: Earthquake Missouri
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| Birthname | Great New Madrid quake | ||||
| born on | 16 December 1811 at 02:15 (= 02:15 AM ) | ||||
| Place | New Madrid MO, USA, 36n35, 89w31 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m89w31 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   23°32'   00°25 Asc. 22°52'
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Biography
American Earthquake, the Great New Madrid, quake: first (and 2nd strongest) in 54-day series of massive earthquakes that hit the Mississippi Valley 1811-12. The shock was felt over 2/3 of then US, about 1 million square miles; stopped clocks in Boston, rang bells in Norfolk, VA, land dropped 30-40 ft in some places, course of Mississippi River changed, two new lakes formed; land so severely fissured it could not be crossed on horseback; floods, subsidence & "sand blows" (eruptions of sand and mud), destroyed farmland, timberland and prairie - "the most violent & prolonged series of earthquakes in US history." The final quake, 2/07/1812, c. 3:45 AM LMT, (acc to Nuttli) centered at New Madrid, MO, was the most powerful, estimated at 8.7 Richter.
Events
- Mundane : Earthquake 16 December 1811
Source Notes
Diana K. Rosenberg collection, Catalogue of Significant Earthquakes 2000 BC -1979, Report SE-27: World Data
Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics, US Dept of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Data & Information Service, Boulder CO 80303, July 1981 154 pp. (Out of Print, 2000)
Categories
- Mundane : Disasters : Natural Disasters (Earthquake 8.7)
