Earthquakes

Missouri is preparing for the inevitable.

There was a trio of quakes that did get October off to a bang in the Missouri Bootheel.

There's a whole lot of shaking going on along the southern border of Missouri as the New Madrid Fault has suddenly become busy with nearly a quake happening every single day.

You don't see earthquakes in this part of Illinois very often.

Well, this is a new one. Missouri has quakes along the New Madrid Fault all the time, but it's not often that you see one which was centered just to the west of the St. Louis area Thursday morning. It's been confirmed by the USGS and was felt by hundreds.

There's a bit of irony that comes with this new report of earthquakes in Missouri along the New Madrid Fault. Suddenly, there have been 7 shakers including some large enough to be felt.

It's been said about life that if you blink, you'll miss it. That's true for Missouri earthquakes, too, that happen all the time and rarely does anyone notice. That's exactly what happened in a tiny Missouri town on Thursday.

Everyone in Missouri knows about the dangers of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. However, there's a reason why 5 seemingly unrelated quakes in Tennessee could mean trouble for us someday, too.

How many earthquakes would you consider a lot? Perhaps it's the number of confirmed New Madrid earthquakes that have shaken Missouri in the past 40 years as that number has soared past 1,000.

It's hard to judge the status of what's happening in southern Missouri along the New Madrid Fault by looking at just one day. That's why when a new month starts that I like to take a look back at the past month of seismic activity and Missouri sure was shaking a lot in August.