New Madrid Earthquake-- is that area likely to have more earthquakes? Why?

Question

Is the area of the famous New Madrid Earthquake likely to experience more earthquakes? Please, please, please help! And give good reasons why :)

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Answer 1

Yes, it has more than other states in the area.  Since the 1970s, thousands of earthquakes have been recorded in the New Madrid seismic zone.

The New Madrid Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the contiguous United States, occurred on February 7, 1812.   It got its name from its primary location in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, near New Madrid, Louisiana Territory (now Missouri).  The New Madrid Seismic Zone, also known as the Reelfoot Rift or the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone in the Southern and Midwestern United States stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.

The New Madrid Seismic Zone is made up of reactivated faults that formed when North America began to split or rift apart during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic Era (about 750 million years ago). The resulting rift system failed but remained as a scar or zone of weakness. The area was then flooded by an ancient ocean, depositing layers of sediment on the rift.

Answer 2

yes time is ticking on that area of Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee. New Madrid will have more earthquakes and tremors as well it is a very active fault zone I live in the area and have felt two tremors and I know there will be more before an other big earthquake happens

Answer 3

New Madrid is an active and major fault.  Of course it is going to have more earthquakes.  That is what faults do:  Quake

Answer 4

I think the "when" has been seriously debated for  almost 200 years. If it is in the next few decades it has the potential to be the most devastating natural disaster in American History. The problem is the number of houses built in the 19th and 20th century without any earthquake resistance built into them. The other issue is the flooding that may result.

  There is a scary drawing in the source.