Geology

It's hard to judge the status of what's happening in southern Missouri along the New Madrid Fault by looking at just one day. That's why when a new month starts that I like to take a look back at the past month of seismic activity and Missouri sure was shaking a lot in August.

Some people wish they could time travel to see what Missouri was like a few thousand years ago. I'm gonna take a hard pass on that as many scientists believe that Missouri may have been slammed by as many as 3 asteroids.

I can see the memes now. We shall rebuild. That's the likely response of the internet today with news that one of the larger quakes in 2024 along the New Madrid Seismic Zone just quietly shook a Missouri field today.

If you were a squirrel that built a nest in a tree directly over where a mini-swarm of earthquakes happened near New Madrid, Missouri Monday morning, I doubt you would have felt them. However, a curious mini-swarm along the fault area of southern Missouri have been confirmed by the USGS.

Earth hasn't seen solar flares in a long time that could rival what happened earlier in May. Did you know that even the Wisconsin rocks and soil received a massive electric shock as a result?

With the New Madrid Fault Zone practically in my backyard (regionally speaking), I pay very close attention to seismic activity in this volatile part of Missouri. I noticed something interesting that's just started happening over the past 30 days and that's the fact that quakes in the New Madrid Fault Zone tend to be happening very close to New Madrid, Missouri itself.

You can say whatever you want about Missouri and you might even be right, but there's no arguing about how awesome the natural geographical features of the state are. Someone counted all the natural springs in the state and the number is beyond incredible.

It is believed to have started its existence in an asteroid belt somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. Eventually, this 70 million ton meteor would put a huge hole in Illinois and may have even started the Ice Age.

When is an earthquake not really an earthquake? When it's a recent one that hit the Kansas City, Missouri area that was felt by hundreds, but wasn't an earthquake at all.

Here's something you won't hear very often. South Carolina had an earthquake Saturday that was strong enough it was felt by nearly a thousand residents according to the USGS.