Earthquakes

Heavy snow and an earthquake - just a typical January day in the Missouri bootheel.

It wasn't a life-changing jolt, but more of a "Hello and hope you have a Merry Christmas" type of rumble as the New Madrid Fault woke up a few in southern Missouri on Christmas morning.

There's a quake not named New Madrid in the Midwest and it's showing signs of awakening.

If you saw mentions on social media today of residents in southwestern Missouri feeling an earthquake, they weren't imagining things, but it wasn't a quake.

November has been one of the most active months of the year for the New Madrid Seismic Zone in southern Missouri as the 3rd largest quake of the month just happened Saturday night and was felt by many.

There were 16 typical earthquakes along the New Madrid Seismic Zone in Missouri in October, plus 4 events that were not.

2 earthquakes happened along the southern Missouri border Thursday where they normally don't occur.

Say what you want about FEMA, but they are good at planning. The result of all that planning is a set of new risk maps for Missouri and Illinois that are more than a little bit terrifying.

Since I'm an earthquake nerd, I keep close tabs on the New Madrid Fault that weaves its way through southern Missouri. Normally, there are small quakes that happen almost constantly, but that's not been the case this month. Activity along the fault zone has become eerily quiet.

There was a very small earthquake in Missouri Tuesday night.