A small, sprightly white-haired woman wearing a shapeless gray sweater over a summery calico dress looks out her window, her breath smoking the windowpane, and exclaims “it’s fruitcake weather!” A ...

When it comes to earthquakes in the U.S., you probably think of California. But the New Madrid fault in West Tennessee rocked the state with a series of earthquakes between 1811 and 1812, producing ...