4.2 quake hits Missouri

[Ichingcarpenter]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-95.-85.php



18 km ( 11 mi) SE of Miramiguoa Park, MO

EARTHQUAKES IN THE ILLINOIS BASIN - OZARK DOME REGION
This large region borders the much more seismically active New Madrid seismic zone on the seismic zone's north and west. The Illinois basin - Ozark dome region covers parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas and stretches from Indianapolis and St. Louis to Memphis


. Moderately frequent earthquakes occur at irregular intervals throughout the region. The largest historical earthquake in the region (magnitude 5.4) damaged southern Illinois in 1968.

Moderately damaging earthquakes strike somewhere in the region each decade or two, and smaller earthquakes are felt about once or twice a year. In addition, geologists have found evidence of eight or more prehistoric earthquakes over the last 25,000 years that were much larger than any observed historically in the region.

[brettdale]

1. Thoughts with you guys

Hope it wasnt too scary.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

2. They have been talking for some time now that this fault was going to go

and in a big way in the near future. It shook about a 5.3 3 years ago when I was in Indiana. Made my 4-drawer legal file cabinet which was full to the gills jump up off the floor.

With all the disastrous weather we have been having the last few years I would think that it would be hard to maintain being a global warming denier.