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.
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.
There's a new study that is sending shockwaves (in a manner of speaking) through the geological world. It claims that Missouri is still feeling aftershocks from the historic New Madrid quakes in the early 1800's more than 200 years later.
When two massive earthquakes rocked the New Madrid, Missouri area in late 1811 and early 1812, most of the damage is only recorded in history books. But, there is still a remnant of those historic quakes in the form of sand volcanoes that can still be found if you scour Google Earth.
Now that we're almost halfway through 2023, let's do some quick earthquake math. There have been more than 175 measurable quakes along the New Madrid Fault in the seismically-active part of Missouri.