Links to Articles of Interest
A Tour Through the New Madrid Seismic Zone
The 200th anniversary of the big New Madrid earthquake is coming in 2011-2012 including ambitious plans for a PBS special, numerous field trips, the National Earthquake Conference, even an "earthquake trail" for the tourism industry is being considered... (Click here to learn more...)
Commerce Geophysical Lineament
and its relationship to the New Madrid Fault
The Commerce geophysical lineament is a latecomer to the New Madrid Seismic hubbub. In the late 1990s, geologists from 30-plus countries donned chigger repellant and studied the walls of trenches in the hill near Commerce, MO. They were fascinated. Normal evolution would layer one type of soil on top of another... (Click here to learn more...)
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