Earthquakes

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?

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.

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.

The New Madrid Fault began 2024 rather quietly, but has made up for lost time as the month of May has seen 33 quakes already shake southern Missouri including the biggest earthquake of the year so far.

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.

I lived in Missouri in 2011 and I am an earthquake nerd, yet I don't remember what was the largest quake to hit the state that didn't originate from the New Madrid Fault Zone that hit that year.

Paint me skeptical. A new report claims that Missouri and other states are 'running out of power' and that rolling blackouts are inevitable. I've done some digging into data and the idea isn't as crazy as you might think.

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.

It's only happened once in history that we know of, but a tsunami did once travel up the Mississippi River in Missouri and by the time it was done, 30 boats were no more.

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.