Answer:
It impacted the lives of people greatly.
Step-by-step explanation:
In the New Madrid region, the earthquakes dramatically affected the landscape. They caused bank failures along the Mississippi River, landslides along Chickasaw Bluffs in Kentucky and Tennessee, and uplift and subsidence of large tracts of land in the Mississippi River floodplain. The area of damage is estimated at 600,000 square kilometers; the quakes were felt over an area of approximately 5,000,000 square kilometers. The area of strong shaking was approximately 10 times that of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Some Earth scientists suggest that the faulting of the NMSZ is the result of an underground hot spot, a section of Earth's upper mantle that upwells to melt through the crust. The New Madrid Seismic Zone is active and averages about 200 measured events per year (magnitude 1.0 or greater). Tremors large enough to be felt (magnitude 2.5 – 3.0) occur annually. On average every 18 months, the fault releases a shock of magnitude 4.0 or greater, which is capable of local minor damage.