The village that was destroyed by the earthquake

The 20th - century seismologists discovered that the New Madrid earthquake was 8 on the Richter scale.

The village was almost destroyed by the earthquake, which also caused a temporary deviation of the Mississippi River flow.

The shocks were felt from the eastern part of Canada to the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south.

Amazingly, only two people lost their lives, perhaps because of the fact that the greatest damage occurred in very few populated areas.