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 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.
My family heard them several times Saturday night at our house in Missouri and maybe you did, too. Did you hear mysterious booms and wonder if we were either having an earthquake or about to? It was actually something completely different.
Since I was born and raised in Missouri and I am an earthquake nerd, I thought I knew everything there was to know about faults in Missouri. The only one in Missouri is New Madrid, right? Wrong.
I have come across a time-lapse map that claims Missouri used to be ocean-front property, but is it true? Let's take a deep dive (ocean pun intended) and see if this theory has any basis in fact.
I will confess that I only think about sinkholes when I see one appear and that's not frequently. There have been some that have been spotted in Missouri recently which led me on an investigation where I learned that the state is a dangerous sinkhole hotspot.
I'm afraid of heights. I'm also afraid of depths so I guess I have a dilemma. That's one of the reasons it freaks me out a little bit to know there's a sinkhole in Missouri that plunges 175 into the depths of the Earth. Yikes.