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MU researcher says the next large central US earthquake may not be in New Madrid

COLUMBIA, Mo. — This December marks the bicentennial of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12, which are the biggest earthquakes known to have occurred in the central U.S.
Now, based on the earthquake record in China, a University of Missouri re…

Purdue-led research team finds Haiti quake caused by unknown fault

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers found a previously unmapped fault was responsible for the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti and that the originally blamed fault remains ready to produce a large earthquake.
Eric Calais, a Purdue Univer…