On this day 205 years ago at approximatly 2:30 in the morning the last of the great New Madrid earthquakes occurred. It was the strongest of the 3 and was felt across the eastern North American continent in the area that embraced the United States as it was constituted then. The quake generated also in words one of the best eywitness accounts by New Madrid native, Eliza Bryan she wrote of the earthquake:
"...on the 7th about 4 o'clock, A. M., a concussion took place so much more violent that those which had preceded it, that it was denominated the hard shock. The awful darkenss of the atmosphere, which was formerly saturated with the sulphurious vapor, and the violence of the tempestuous thundering noise that acconpanied it, together with all the other phenomena mentioned as attending the former ones, formed a scene, the description of which would require the most sublimely fanciful imagination..."
Her description went on in some detail about the quake and described the other earthquake of the New Madrid sequence as had been experienced by its namesake town. For more information visit New Madrid Compendium.
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