Odd Quake Shakes Area South of Missouri’s Table Rock Lake

There's really no other way to describe this earthquake other than odd. The USGS has confirmed that a tremor did happen just south of the Table Rock Lake region of Missouri which is an atypical place for the New Madrid Fault to shake.

The USGS has confirmed a quake just happened in this area of northern Arkansas right across the Missouri border south of Table Rock Lake

To say this was nothing major is an understatement as the USGS only confirmed that it was a 2.0 magnitude quake with no local reports of it being felt by residents which makes sense considering this is a very sparsely populated part of northern Arkansas.

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A New Madrid quake in this area isn't unprecedented, but I can count on one hand (or maybe two) the number of tremors every year that are in this part of Arkansas or Missouri. It's just not a common location for earthquakes. That being said, it's a good reminder that the New Madrid Fault is more than just a Missouri boot heel problem. It's also possible that this quake was just an isolated event that had nothing to do with the New Madrid Fault. That's part of what makes quakes in this region a bit of a mystery. Was it a real New Madrid quake or just a random shaking? The truth lies underneath our feet somewhere.