Next New Madrid Earthquake 2024. Is an earthquake capable of splitting the country in half expected to hit the new madrid seismic zone in the next 50 years? The united states geological survey has confirmed that there have already been 177 new madrid quakes in 2024 so far and that's a conservative count.

On the mississippi river, just upstream from reelfoot, the earthquakes leveled the settlement of new madrid, mo. While there have fortunately not been many quakes big enough to garner much attention, the usgs.