Suddenly Nearly a Quake a Day Along Missouri’s New Madrid Fault

There's a whole lot of shaking going on along the southern border of Missouri as the New Madrid Fault has suddenly become busy with nearly a quake happening every single day.

To emphasize, there's no real reason for alarm. It's just an interesting pattern that is developing along one of America's most seismically-active regions. A ran a query of the USGS earthquake database to see what the New Madrid Fault in Missouri has been up to over the past 30 days which is something I do near the end of almost every month. This is what the past 30 days looks like according to the USGS.

I have only included earthquakes that have been confirmed by a seismologist from the USGS. The largest quake (which in and of itself isn't that large at all) was a 2.6 shaker on September 19.

The number of quakes is not unusual as the New Madrid Fault is almost always doing something. The most interesting two takeaways from what's happened so far in September is the cluster of quakes within the most dangerous region of the Missouri Bootheel as you can see bunches of earthquakes super close to New Madrid, Missouri itself.

The other unusual thing about September are the two earthquakes in the St. Louis region with one being in the northern area of the region and another directly east from St. Louis in Illinois. Again, no reason for alarm, but just an interesting month of activity from the fault that will likely change all of our lives - someday.