Oklahoma is shaking tonight. A series of earthquakes have been reportedly felt by thousands centered just to the northeast of Oklahoma City. Yes, Missouri's neighbor is shaking.
Since I was born and raised in Missouri and I am an earthquake nerd, I thought I knew everything there was to know about faults in Missouri. The only one in Missouri is New Madrid, right? Wrong.
We're only days into 2024 and already strange geological things are happening in and near Missouri. This is one of them. A mini-swarm of earthquakes were reported overnight near Bull Shoals Lake.
It's appropriate that after a year of relatively strange earthquakes, Kansas is ending the year the way it started as another quake felt by many just happened in the middle of the state.
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.
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.