New Madrid Fault Activity 2024. After a major earthquake in the new madrid or wabash valley seismic zone, what changes to the landscape would we most likely see? In the central united states, the most prominent hot spot is the new madrid seismic zone in the mississippi valley — a small sliver that has a 75 to 95 percent of.

The central us, from the confluence of the mississippi and ohio, into missouri and eastern oklahoma, down to the la. New madrid, mo — a small earthquake brought tremors across the tennessee, kentucky, and missouri border last weekend, a reminder that much of the midwest sits on a.