New Madrid

This was no minor earthquake that hit the New Madrid Fault Zone in Missouri early Thursday morning. So far, it's the largest quake along this seismically-active part of Missouri in 2024.

I thought it had been a rather quiet week along the New Madrid Fault Zone in Missouri this week, but I learned that below the surface there has been a lot of activity. I found a swarm of 8 quakes in Missouri inside of the 'strike zone' of the New Madrid area.

I suppose I should just accept this as the good news it is, but the paranoid part of me refuses to. The New Madrid Fault in Missouri has been very quiet so far in 2024. When I say quiet, I mean eerily so.

Most earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone in Missouri are not felt. The quake that struck Wednesday was and registers as one of 2023's most intense quake felt by hundreds.

I'm no math genius, but even I know this number is a lot. If you had to guess, how many New Madrid earthquakes do you think shook Missouri in 2023? The number is probably higher than you think.

There's a new study that is sending shockwaves (in a manner of speaking) through the geological world. It claims that Missouri is still feeling aftershocks from the historic New Madrid quakes in the early 1800's more than 200 years later.

When two massive earthquakes rocked the New Madrid, Missouri area in late 1811 and early 1812, most of the damage is only recorded in history books. But, there is still a remnant of those historic quakes in the form of sand volcanoes that can still be found if you scour Google Earth.

There's no real reason for alarm, but there was a larger than usual quake along the New Madrid Fault in Missouri late Tuesday night that was reportedly felt by more than a dozen residents.

There has never been an earthquake in Missouri quite like the ones that struck the state during the historic 1811 and 1812 events. There were a number of almost unbelievable things that happened during those quakes that are actually historical facts.

After a period of relative quiet, there's a sudden swarm of quakes that have been recorded along the New Madrid Fault on Missouri's border.