Madrid Fault Line Map. The new madrid fault line is the most dangerous in the united states. The solid straight line in the middle of the new madrid seismic zone is the surface projection of the modeled fault, which ruptures in the simulation.

An earthquake in the middle of the country, along the precarious new madrid fault, could have enormous fiscal and energy consequences. It is part of the north american tectonic plate and the major fault among four, located in this region. As the seismic waves propagate away from the hypocenter in all directions, we see successive waves of strong ground.

The fault line runs roughly 150 miles from arkansas into missouri and illinois.

Taken together, the new data suggest that the new madrid seismic zone may be shutting down after the recent cluster of large earthquakes in the past 1000 years. It shows 20 localities where geologists have found and published their findings on faults or evidence of large earthquakes (from sand blows; The shake it out event is drawing large annual turnouts, including both indiana and missouri boasting each a half a million participants, according to shake it out’s graphs. The new madrid seismic zone (/ˈmædrɪd/), sometimes called the new madrid fault line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the southern and midwestern united states, stretching to the southwest from new madrid, missouri.