Missouri's Insurance Department concerned about earthquake coverage

With Southern California’s recent experience of strong earthquakes and the ongoing impact of numerous aftershocks, Missouri officials again are focusing on the possible impact an earthquake would have in the Show Me State.

That’s because some of the strongest earthquakes in North America’s recorded history — at least since Europeans came to the continent — happened in 1811 and 1812, based on Southeast Missouri’s New Madrid Fault as the epicenter of the three main quakes and hundreds of aftershocks.

Among its impacts, some said the Mississippi River ran backward.

Kentucky’s Reelfoot Lake was created where the Mississippi used to run — and there’s a portion of Kentucky attached to Missouri because of a change in the river’s main channel.

Read more: http://www.newstribune.com/news/local/story/2019/jul/14/missouris-insurance-department-concerned-about-earthquake-coverage/786522/
(Jefferson City News Tribune)