Don’t let shaky ground catch you off guard.
An earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of the earth caused by the breakage and shifting of rock beneath the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes can cause secondary disasters, such as fires, landslides, avalanches, tsunamis, or dam failures, among other hazardous conditions.
Northwest Mississippi is located within the New Madrid Seismic Zone, part of a six-state area where earthquakes can happen.
For earthquake mitigation, it’s important to have a safe room in your home that your family can go to, and enough food and water for an emergency situation.
Earthquake Facts
These earthquake facts will shake you to the core. It’s not your fault if earthquakes make you a little shaky.
Earthquake Science
…And the disaster that created it.
What causes earthquakes?
Take a look at the movement of the earth’s tectonic plates and how the release of extreme pressure built up at the plates’ boundaries results in an earthquake.
Why do buildings fall in earthquakes?
Don’t do this in an earthquake
Nine things NOT to do in an earthquake.
Purr-fect Senses
These felines seem to sense an earthquake coming.