New Madrid Fault Area 2024. This assessment is based on decades of research on new madrid earthquakes and related phenomena by dozens of federal, university, state, and consulting earth scientists. Missouri's new madrid seismic zone is in the news after the national guard held drills in downtown st.
There’s a whole lot of shaking going on along the southern border of missouri as the new madrid fault has suddenly become busy with nearly a quake happening every single day. Researchers have mapped out three currently active ancient fault lines โ fissures in the earthโs crust โ in the new madrid area that formed around 500 million years ago, at a.