What the records say
- When
- 16 Dec 1811
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Where
- Usa
- Coordinates
- 35.60° N, 90.40° W
- Intensity mmi
- 11
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
4 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The New Madrid earthquake in the Mississippi Valley, near New Madrid, reverses the course of the river for a while”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Mississippi-Tal nahe New Madrid ereignet sich ein Erdbeben der Stärke 7”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “premier des tremblements de terre de New Madrid qui frappent le centre des États-Unis autour du fleuve Mississippi durant l'hiver 1811-1812 (dont deux autres…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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