New Madrid Shaking – Sudden Swarm of 14 Missouri Quakes in 7 Days
There are a lot of predictable things in Missouri, but earthquakes are unfortunately not one of them. It's worth noting that the New Madrid Fault Zone has been shaking a bit more than normal lately with more than a dozen quakes being recorded in the past 7 days.
I feel the need to be clear every time that I share anything having to do with the New Madrid Fault that there's no real reason for alarm. We need in a very seismically-active part of America and it's not unusual at all for their to be occasional quakes in Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee and Arkansas. However, 14 in one week is plenty and there were several over the past 7 days which were strong enough to be felt. The most recent just happened this afternoon measuring registering a 2.8 and being reported felt by dozens in southern Missouri.
Here are the biggest from the rest of the quakes that have happened along the New Madrid over the past week.
Nothing major, but the 2.5 quake in the Bootheel area of Missouri bordering Tennessee was big enough to be felt.
You might recall that back in February, the largest quake so far in 2023 was registered when a 3.3 struck the Bootheel.
Mini-swarms like the one over the past week in Missouri are no cause for alarm, but it's another reminder to pay attention as experts recently doubled their estimates of the damage a major New Madrid earthquake would do.
Here are the things we can predict in Missouri. Cardinals fans will always be uptight about how the baseball team is playing. Many will go into the woods looking for mushrooms in Spring. You can also count on the New Madrid Fault part of Missouri being active and unpredictable. That's a constant.
