wat does new Madrid earthquake have to do wit Arkansas history?
look iv done most th project but i need help any 1 who knows about it please help! earthquakes dont happem in arkanasas
The northeast section of Arkansas is located in the New Madrid seismic zone and was seriously affected by great shocks that occurred in that zone, in 1811 – 1812. Arkansas’ 40-mile-long, half-mile-wide Lake Saint Francis was formed by these earthquakes.
The Mississippi embayment – fall line area, in which the New Madrid seismic zone is located, extends from Cairo, Illinois, south through northeastern Arkansas, western Kentucky, and Tennessee, then westward to include the lowland area of southern Arkansas, the eastern Oklahoma – Texas border area, and northeastern Texas. Major historic seismic activity has been limited to a line extending west of the Mississippi River, from Cairo to west of Memphis. Several damaging earthquakes have occurred along this line, in addition to the New Madrid shocks mentioned earlier. Indian tradition and geologic evidence indicate an earlier history of severe earthquakes in the same area.
Rumblings of Imminence: The New Madrid Seismic Zone
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2027, New Madrid, Missouri $3.99 Eight years after the Louisiana Purchase, the western frontier of the United States extended only to the Mississippi River. There in the soggy inhospitable Delta of today?s Missouri Bootheel, hardscrabble pioneers suddenly found themselves fighting for their lives against horrendous odds.The Great New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 left death and unimaginable destruction in their wake. Nuetzel chro… |
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Earthquakes and Earthquake History of Arkansas … |
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Earthquakes and earthquake history of Arkansas (Information circular / State of Arkansas, Arkansas Geological Commission) … |