Yeah, we used to feel a little earthquake from time to time in St. Louis when I was a kid. It was weird, you’re vision would go kind of wonky and suddenly you’d realize everythign was shaking. I recall it once in my bed, and another time when I was shoveling snow. Never hard enough to knock anything off of a shelf or anything.
Course, Chicago could be about to get Haitied. The New Madrid Fault cause the big one of 1804 that changed the course of the Mississippi. A good reminder that it could happen lots of places, not just California.
Not where I am though, we’re on mud for a looooong way down.
Whenever that New Madrid fault goes off again the disaster will be incredible
The big ones were 1811-12, see my earlier comment. Interesting tidbit. The first steamboat trip down the Missippi was being successfully attempted. THey said they never would have made it without the steam power. Sometimes the river ran backwards. Also Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee(?) was formed when a grabben fault dropped at least 20 feet.