The lost history of the New Madrid earthquakes /
Valenčius, Conevery Bolton,1969-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: earthquake cracks -- A great commotion: the experience of the New Madrid earthquakes -- Earthquakes and the end of the New Madrid hinterland -- Revival and resistance: earthquakes on native ground -- The quaking body: sensation, electricity, and religious revival -- Vernacular science: knowing earthquakes in the early United States -- Sunk lands and submerged knowledge: how war, swamps, and seismographs hid evidence of the New Madrid earthquakes -- The science of deep history: old accounts and modern science of New Madrid -- Conclusion: memory and earth in the Mississippi Valley.
New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812.
Earthquakes