New From Nino’s Corner : Alex Collier Part 1

1811 Solar Eclipse / Great Comet ☄️ & Massive Earthquakes !!

The Great Comet - Jordan Family Tree



Unfortunately for those in living near New Madrid, Arkansas in December 1811, this comet made life anything but ordinary. The massive New Madrid earthquakes began in December 1811 and continued through the Spring of 1812.  The “comet” appeared to leave in 1812, although there is some uncertainty as to whether it really left entirely.

During the winter of 1811-12, a series of some 1,874 recorded tremors within the New Madrid fault dramatically altered the landscape on some 30-50,000 square miles of land creating Reelfoot Lake in extreme northwest Tennessee.
The New Madrid Earthquake, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the contiguous United States, occurred on February 7, 1812, with magnitude estimates greater than 8.0 on the Richter scale. It got its name from its primary location in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, near New Madrid, Louisiana Territory (now Missouri). The first earthquake preceded three other major quakes: two on December 16, 1811, and one on January 23, 1812. There were also numerous aftershocks in the area for the rest of that winter. There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over 50,000 square miles and moderately across nearly one million square miles.

The New Madrid earthquakes were the biggest earthquakes in American history. They occurred in the central Mississippi Valley, but were felt as far away as New York City, Boston, Montreal, and Washington D.C. President James Madison and his wife Dolly felt them in the White House. Church bells rang in Boston. From December 16, 1811 through March of 1812 there were over 2,000 earthquake aftershocks in the central Midwest, and between 6,000-10,000 earthquakes in the Bootheel of Missouri where New Madrid is located near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
In the known history of the world, no other earthquakes have lasted so long or produced so much evidence of damage as the New Madrid earthquakes. Three of the earthquakes are on the list of America's top earthquakes: the first one on December 16, 1811, a magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale; the second on January 23, 1812, at 7.8; and the third on February 7, 1812, at as much as 8.8 magnitude.

After the February 7th earthquake, the Mississippi River actually ran backwards for several hours. The force of the land upheaval 15 miles south of New Madrid created Reelfoot Lake, drowned the inhabitants of an Indian village; turned the river against itself to flow backwards, it devastated thousands of acres of virgin forest and created two temporary waterfalls on the Mississippi. Boats floating in the middle of the Ohio River they were protected from the earthquake tremors shaking the land, but not from the hazards of falling trees, disappearing islands, and collapsing river banks.

The area of strong shaking associated with these shocks was two to three times larger than that of the 1964 Alaska earthquake and 10 times larger than that of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The midwest experienced more than 2,000 earthquakes in five months, people discovered that most of crevices opening up during an earthquake ran from north to south and they would chop down trees in an east- west direction using the trees as a bridge. There were "missing people" who were most likely swallowed up by the earth. Some earthquake fissures were as long as five miles.

The world's largest sand boil was created by the New Madrid earthquake. It is 1.4 miles long and 136 acres in extent, located in the Bootheel of Missouri, about eight miles west of Hayti, Missouri. Locals call it "The Beach." Other, much smaller, sand boils are found throughout the area.
Seismic Tar Balls; Small pellets up to golf ball sized tar balls are found in sand boils and fissures. They are petroleum that has been solidified, or "petroliferous nodules.”
Earthquake Lights; Lights flashed up from the ground, caused by quartz crystals being squeezed. The phenomena is called “seismoluminescence."

The 1811-1812 earthquakes caused at least 221 landslides along the bluffs that define the eastern boundary of the Mississippi River. This implies that most of the landslides were triggered by a series of event, which is likely to have been the 1811-1812 earthquakes. 
Sounds of distant and loud prolonged peals of thunder and loud explosions accompanied the earthquakes. People reported strange behavior by animals before the earthquakes. They were nervous and excited. Domestic animals became wild, and wild animals became tame. Snakes came out of the ground from hibernation. Flocks of ducks and geese landed near people.

There were temporary river waterfalls where the Mississippi ran backwards during 1811-12 earthquakes. It happened when a thrust fault created a sudden dam several feet high near the bottom of the river loop near New Madrid. The uplift caused both a dam and waterfalls at different locations and raised eight  to ten meters (26 to 33 feet). This is the event that created the so-called "Kentucky Bend", a small peninsula was created; it covers a land area of 17.5 sq miles, and is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River.
There was a little town they're called little Prairie Ark., which sank into the ground slowly over that first day. The people soon found themselves knee-deep in water and had to wade for several miles in a northeast direction to get up to high ground,  the whole town simply disappeared with no trace of it today.
Those who got out spoke of people who were carrying their children on their shoulders in water waist-deep at times. Animals of all kinds, possums and raccoons and coyotes and snakes were swimming around them.  It was a really quite a scene, to them it was if Armageddon had struck.  Meanwhile as they walked northward later that day another shock wave struck. Some panic, thinking if they get out of the flat ground they could probably be safe on the hills, but they didn't know until they reach the hills, that there were landslides to contend with too. They described scenes where people were gathering, praying together. Not surprisingly there was a tremendous religious revival following these earthquakes in the following years, as the regions’ rural congregations of the Christians, Methodists, and the Baptist's saw a sizable increase in membership.
But those that suffered the most from these earthquakes were the Native Americans and we don't have a good census on them but they far outnumbered the white settlers and so there were probably several thousand Native Americans living up in this whole region. Where Helena Arkansa is today there was a tribe and during the earthquakes the ground sank flooded their village and not all of them survived many drowned near Osceola, Arkansas, and there was second Indian village they knew of that sank into the ground. Sadly, there is virtually no written history of what Native Americans experienced during this horrible natural disaster. Local Indians had an oral history of major earthquake events occurring within the memories of their elders, but geologists say that nobody in their tribes would have ever experienced anything remotely like this.
Finally, as stories of devastation got out, there was a fleet of 19 boats docked at New Madrid the night the earthquake hit, 18 of them took off and went down the river one of them stayed and the 18 that left were never seen or heard of again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%931812_New_Madrid_earthquakes

New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 | History, Possible Causes & Modern-day Risk | Britannica