Monday, December 16, 2019

December 16, 1811


Dec. 16, 1811

On this day in history the first of the multiple New Madrid Earthquakes strike. The Mississippi River ran backwards in places, entire islands disappeared, and Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee was created. The quakes remain the most powerful to hit the contiguous United States east of the Rockies.

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