25,000 Flee As Floodgate Opens To Save New Orleans

[Cheryl Nelson]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387236/Mississippi-River-floods-25k-flee-floodgate-opens-save-New-Orleans.html

[Alesiah]

Great Mississippi Floods of June 1811 and the New Madrid Earthquakes

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fre...5F418784F9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_New_Madrid_earthquake

There was a great flood in 1811 the highest flood being in June of that year.

Earthquakes

December 16, 1811, 0815 UTC (2:15 a.m.); (M ~7.2 – 8.1[2]) epicenter in northeast Arkansas.

December 16, 1811, 1415 UTC (8:15 a.m.); (M ~7.2–8.1) epicenter in northeast Arkansas. This shock followed the first earthquake by six hours and was similar in intensity.

January 23, 1812, 1500 UTC (9 a.m.); (M ~7.0–7.8[2]) epicenter in the Missouri Bootheel.

February 7, 1812, 0945 UTC (4:45 a.m.); (M ~7.4–8.0[2]) epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100106/f...3016a.html

Floods linked to San Andreas quakes

Now, new work in southern California suggests that at least three times in the past 2,000 years, the weight of river water spreading across floodplains seems to have helped trigger earthquakes in the region

Here is another blog discussing pressure from increasing river water from rain triggering earthquake..

https://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Great-Mississippi-Floods-of-June-1...