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Uploaded by on Jan 3, 2012

From www.iris.edu
No audio: How can a river run backwards? This animation, also embedded in the rollover, shows how a river can be forced backwards, albeit only long enough to find a new route. Several written accounts from the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 and 1812 describe the horror as great waters swashed upriver causing lakes to form on previously dry land.
More New Madrid seismic-zone animations:

http://www.iris.edu/hq/programs/education_and_outreach/animations/23

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