Earthquakes

As of this writing, there is no way I'm aware of that you can predict an earthquake. Perhaps I'm mistaken though as there's a report that the 3.6 magnitude earthquake in north-central Illinois was predicted by shelter dogs. Woof.

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.

The week is off to a shaky start along the New Madrid Fault in Missouri. There's been a sudden uptick of quakes with 4 being reported in just a few hours time and nearly 20 over the past 7 days.

There's been a strong earthquake with an epicenter near Salina, Kansas Friday night which has already been reported by more than 100 throughout the central part of the state.

The most seismically-active region in America this week isn't the New Madrid Fault in Missouri or even the San Andreas in California. It's a small area in west Texas that has been rocked by more than 260 earthquakes the just the past 7 days alone.

It's been one of the most active weeks seismically speaking in the Midwest of 2023. Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and even parts of Tennessee have seen at least 49 earthquakes in just the past 7 days.

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.

I follow earthquakes just about every day of my life because they've always interested in me, but I can't recall ever seeing a quake in the middle of Kansas like there was Friday night? It wasn't a tiny one either.

I've learned over the years that some of the weirdest events have a reason for happening if you're willing to dig deep enough to figure out why. That's true for a series of recent earthquakes in Illinois that seemed to happen in unexpected places. There's a USGS map which shows it's not weird at all.

It happened almost without anyone noticing, but there was a weird earthquake Wednesday night right in the heart of Illinois. Why?