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New Madrid Earthquakes - Reelfoot Lake

December 11 (approx.)

Detailed Description

Lower end of Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, showing trunks of trees killed when the land was submerged by the December 16, 1811, northeast Arkansas earthquake. (Photograph by M.L. Fuller taken about 100 years after the earthquake.)

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.