As you probably already know these quakes are coming from the Wabash Valley Zone but unfortunately the two faults are in line with each other.
This is a informative website about these 2 faults.
http://showme.net/~fkeller/quake/index.htm
There was a quake in this region maybe 7 years ago.
Thanks StLNative. I hadn’t realized there were two faults in the region. I appreciate the link.
The New Madrid fault zone when viewed from space looks very flat. Just to the north is a region that shows some hills or small mountains.
This has led me to wonder if that region wouldn’t be very suspectible to the liquifaction effect during a stong quake, what would lead to a high level of severe damage.
Here’s a geographic resource that can be used to reveal the area around the New Madrid fault.
Go to the site and start clicking around the bootheal of Missouri.
As you zoom in on the area, it will become evident what I was addressing in my post to you, mountainous areas with large areas of smooth sedimentary plains in between.
A geologist might be able to tell you why liquifaction might not be a danger on these plains, but it sure looks like that might be a problem to me.
http://www.shadedrelief.com/physical/