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Stein was certain that the crust was deforming to some degree there because geologists had been finding evidence of a series of large quakes hundreds of years before the cluster in 1811–12.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2011

For several years, research teams battled in the scientific literature about whether the crust was deforming around New Madrid.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2011