New Madrid Fault Line Predictions 2024. The reelfoot rift is identified today as a subsurface system of fractures and faults in the earth's crust. Researchers have mapped out three currently active ancient fault lines — fissures in the earth’s crust — in the new madrid area that formed around 500 million years ago, at a time when the north american plate tried.

New madrid seismicity is spatially associated with the reelfoot rift and may be produced. If you check the usgs shake map daily, you’ll.