Introduction: Reelfoot's Folly -- The New Madrid Quakes -- The World Gone Mad -- Dreams, Omens, and War -- Pendulums and Polymaths -- The Earthquake Hunters -- Myths, Maps, and Machines -- Finding Faults -- Intensity, Magnitude, and Stars -- Geophysical Leaps Forward -- Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Rifts, Plumes, and Reservoirs -- The Art of Prediction -- False Prophets -- New Madrid Redux.
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