Recent Earthquakes New Madrid 2024. This assessment is based on decades of research on new madrid earthquakes and related phenomena by dozens of federal, university, state, and consulting earth scientists. Data from the u.s geological survey shows dozens of earthquakes in the new madrid seismic zone, which includes far western kentucky and tennessee, within the past 30.

Numerous social media videos warn a large earthquake in a missouri seismic zone would split the country in half. In the new madrid region, the earthquakes dramatically affected the landscape.