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30 Years Later: Remembering Iben Browning’s False New Madrid Earthquake Prediction

30 Years Later: Remembering Iben Browning’s False New Madrid Earthquake Prediction

St. Louis on the Air · St. Louis Public Radio

December 3, 202027m 55s

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Thirty years ago, the late Iben Browning, a self-proclaimed climatologist, predicted that the St. Louis area was in for a major earthquake along the New Madrid Seismic Zone. He forecast that it would happen right around Dec. 3, 1990, sparking a media frenzy in the small town of New Madrid, Missouri, and causing many to stock up on emergency supplies.