Tectonics, the fifth of eight California earthquakes and the eruption of a volcano in Washington – riveted our attention. But do not break down with the New Madrid earthquake in December 1811-February 1812, the mighty Mississippi, only the discharge. Consider the eyewitness deposition Firmin La Roche, a French fur trader from St. Louis. The western boundary was the Mississippi sold by France to the United States just eight years before the earthquake. Missouri was a territory, not yet a state. kept on file in the Missouri Historical Review – - Roche change was in New Orleans, 20 February 1812 when, after the crisis is still popular writing. He just had a fateful journey that began with three flat boats. Thundered: "I was in the earthquake that recently took above and below the mouth of the Ohio River on both banks of the Mississippi, I bought three boats to New Orleans for fur in St. Louis tied the evening of 15 December, we have eight miles north of New Madrid, close to the house of my cousin, John Leclerq After -.. "He had the order, Father Joseph in Osage, back to France. Even Jacques Menier, Mount Sunday, Leon Sarpy, Lamel Henry, five men and the black slave, Ben, who was murdered in New Madrid. "Dinner we went to sleep. I was awakened by a clap of thunder. The ship rolled onto its side so that Lamel, slept next door was thrown at me. We stayed on the side. It was very dark. "We moved away from the coast in half an hour, and I looked at my clock. It was 3 clock. I saw the trees fall on the bench. Great masses of earth fell into the river intersects the ". Lamel the rope that binds us to a newspaper. At one point a big wave comes on the river, I've never seen anyone like him in the sea, which brings us back to the North to the flow over a mile, inland water banks seen -.. consisting of three or four miles, "It was a power supply. Then this wave is stopped, and slowly the river was in order. "Everywhere the sound of thunder. The ground was shaking the trees. The air was thick with something like smoke. It was a lot of lightning." We did not see, had died, his father Joseph was the acquittal of two other boats, one of whom never saw him again -…. do not know if these men were drowned We all were great. Terror awaits death. "The trees were cut, people said, large cracks in the floor -. -. Some very deep stretching 10 miles or 15" We were told it was a new lake in Tennessee (Reelfoot) and waters not geändert.Die Yazoo River a new mouth. "I was in great pain with a broken Arm.Von those who were with me, but my Father only Joseph.Je personal loss at $ 600 ($ 12,000 in today's money)." A priest Collection An appendix to the La Rouche, "said Father Joseph," I think there are two half-hour accidents, and many small difference between water and después.El increased so that a tree on the bank – the top was 30 feet above the river – from all parties was covered "We saw two houses in flames on the left side when we arrived in New Madrid, burning houses were there ..". We are committed to in the morning land, and a hickory tree fell on the boat -. Kill black people, Ben, and break the left arm of the Chief LaRouche:.. "We have no difficulty in knowing how the people are dead, although we have said, there were many we saw the bodies of many Then we saw people how to swim drowned in the river. "fillers skin were in the flow of people poured into the tank thrown with us until he could not." Another eye-witness account to another (edited here for space reasons) by Eliza Bryan, a resident of New Madrid , four years after the event was abandoned. "On 16 December 1811 at 2:00 clock we were visited by a violent shock of an earthquake. It was similar to the sound of his thunder, but distant, but more hoarse and vibration will be accompanied. "This was a matter of minutes by the complete saturation of the atmosphere with sulfur vapors, followed complete darkness." In fact, it was horrible screams of people running in fear from here to there, not knowing where to go, what to do – crack down trees – - the cries of birds and animals of each species and the sound of the Mississippi, during the retrograde minutes. "People fled in all directions, provided there is less danger at a distance near the river." .. There are several, smaller daily and 23 were January 1812 it was so violent that the worst of the above "knock from now until February 4, the country was in turmoil still well below a gentle sea breeze stirring -." The 7th February by four clock was advanced a concussion much further than to violate what was done as a "shock difficult." The frightening darkness of the atmosphere saturated sulfur vapor, and the violence of the storm was a scene beyond imagination. "First, the Mississippi seemed to move far from their banks -. absorb water like a mountain for a time many ships left New Orleans in the bare sand poor sailors were able to escape.". The flow of 15 to 20 meters has grown at a right angle and extended. The banks use the current boats überwältigt.Die retrograde were on the left and sand were torn from their moorings. "The river is falling so fast it was annulled, washed all the forests of poplar. A lot of fish remain in the country." In all the beats broke terribly the earth. Hundreds of acres were covered with sand cracks. In some places there was a substance similar to wood charcoal. "Recently it was discovered that was a lake (Reelfoot) on the opposite side of the Mississippi River in the land of India (West Tennessee) was founded.Is it to 100 miles in length, width go 5:59 miles and depths of 10-50 meters. "For 18 months, from the fear that our houses are the current crisis and that there were living in camps forced to low light. Some fled, never to return, but most go back." Giant of the velocity of the Earth U.S. Geological Survey FaultThe three major earthquakes in central Italy Mississippi Valley in winter than in 1811-12. The most powerful of American history: "There was no seismograph at the time, but changes the size of the earth his name in three inter-Magnitude Earthquake -. 8 or higher on the Richter scale, seismograph ten times more points of the most powerful earthquake recording Richter scale. on August 4, 1964 earthquake in Alaska, the USGS said .. "earthquake in the central United States affect much larger areas than earthquakes of similar strength in the American West" The earthquake in San Francisco, CA, in 1906 (magnitude 7,
is 350 miles. The first New Madrid earthquake, the church bells rang near Boston, Massachusetts, a thousand miles. "New Madrid, in 1811 there were 400 wooden barracks. St. Louis and Memphis were small towns. "If a class-8 earthquake in the city today would have been destroyed and thousands of dead," the USGS said in the past. 470 years of recorded earthquakes measurable central Mississippi Valley warning of the USGS "The probability that an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude in the New Madrid seismic zone in the next 50 years, over 90 percent," Question: What's Worse – Hurricanes, tornadoes. , Floods, forest fires, landslides, soil, volcanoes and earthquakes? .. …. .. ..
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