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From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but d
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to
Manufacturing Hysteria
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