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During the winter of 1811-1812, the worst earthquakes in US history occurred in what was then the Louisiana territory, now southern Missouri, near the town of New Madrid.

What would have been the results of these same quakes happening 50, 75, and 100 years later than they did OTL?

That would be Winter of 1861-1862, the winter of 1886-1887, or the winter of 1911-1912.

Back in 1811, the whole region was sparsely populated. But by the 1860s, 80s, and turn of the century? what chaos would have ensued? How serious would the damage be to the country as a whole. St. Louis, the "gateway to the west", isn't all that far from New Madrid, and if these tremors rang church bells in Charleston and rattled the china in the White House (as I've heard it said), imagine the disruption four 8.0 earthquakes in the span of 3 months would have done to mid-to-late 19th century America, when the very flow of the mississippi was changed.

What do you all think?
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