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New Madrid, MO.ENEWSW Movement on the Reelfoot Fault (red line) during the 2/07/1812 earthquake uplifted one side of the fault by as much as 3 m (9 ft), causing temporary waterfalls on the Mississippi River to alter the normal direction of flow on a segment of the river and damming up a stream in the Mississippi River floodplain to form Reelfoot Lake (Problem 20 placemark). Which side of the Reelfoot Fault was uplifted?

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