New Madrid

If you happened to be in the St. Louis, Missouri area earlier this week, you might have seen National Guard troops on the streets and wondered what was going on. No reason for alarm as there's a very good reason why those troops had smashed vehicles and emergency tents set up. They were practicing for a massive New Madrid earthquake. Wait. What?

If you live in or near Missouri, you live in one of the most seismically-active places in America. Want proof? The United States Geological Survey has confirmed that there have already been 177 New Madrid quakes in 2024 so far and that's a conservative count.

This is outstanding. I've waited for years for the moment when New Madrid, Missouri would become the movie star I knew it was capable of being and that moment has arrived. There's a new disaster movie starring this earthquake-prone Missouri town and you can watch it for the cost of nothing.

I have been a radio guy for more than 40 years and a tech nerd almost as long. That's why I tend to spend a lot of time exploring new technologies including artificial intelligence. I asked the "robots" some questions and got some surprising answers including 6 places in Missouri the "machines" say you should avoid at all costs.

They're twins if that were possible for earthquakes. Two seismic events struck the New Madrid Seismic Zone on Friday with one quake felt in Missouri and an identical shaker in southern Arkansas.

This was no minor earthquake that hit the New Madrid Fault Zone in Missouri early Thursday morning. So far, it's the largest quake along this seismically-active part of Missouri in 2024.

I thought it had been a rather quiet week along the New Madrid Fault Zone in Missouri this week, but I learned that below the surface there has been a lot of activity. I found a swarm of 8 quakes in Missouri inside of the 'strike zone' of the New Madrid area.

I suppose I should just accept this as the good news it is, but the paranoid part of me refuses to. The New Madrid Fault in Missouri has been very quiet so far in 2024. When I say quiet, I mean eerily so.

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.