Talk:New Madrid earthquake

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"largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States of America" while Good Friday Earthquake is "single most powerful earthquake in United States history"...?

I also don't understand this. The New Madrid earthquakes are estimated at 8, but the Good Friday Earthquake, and another on March 9, 1957 on the List of earthquakes, are both listed as being in Alaska and estimated at over 9. Could the "largest earthquake ever recorded..." have been a typo for "largest earthquake ever reported in the continental US" ?

It could be that "largest" is meant in the sense of "largest area affected", which seems rather difficult to quantify, but the article implies that this earthquake was felt over a huge area, while being at a lower intensity than some. --timc | Talk 20:59, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Largest in the contiguous United States is what is meant by scientists.

1 Date of the quake
2 Bad link
3 Largest Quake?
4 Adding material from German article

[edit] Date of the quake

The date on the list of earthquakes in the United States puts this earthquake on Dec 16, 1811 -- which is it?

Most sources seem to call all of the events, from December 16, 1811 (first major shock) to February 7, 1812 (last major shock), and including January 23 (another major shock), the New Madrid Earthquake. This article only calls the February 7th event the New Madrid Earthquake, which does not seem consistent with other sources. --Kevin Myers 14:27, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bad link

The link to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/bytopic/new_madrid.html is dead and I could not readily identify an exact replacement. Perhaps http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics.php?topicID=71&topic=New%20Madrid%20Seismic%20Zone could be used. Jim 22:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Largest Quake?

The first argument ended with the statement that the New Madrid was the largest to hit the contigious United States. Wasn't the Cascadia Earthquake the largest to hit contigious U.S. ? --AirLiner 15:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Looks like that one was off the coast. At least it looks that way form the picture in the article. Dalf | Talk 21:42, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding material from German article

The German Wikipedia article is more extensive than this one, so I've translated material from it for this article. Here's the original translation request from Wikipedia:German-English_translation_requests: