Monday, December 28, 2015

An Earthquake for the Holidays

In the doldrums between the Christmas and the New Years holidays the New Madrid seismic zone has decided to remind us that it is around by calling attention to itself.  This morning at about 8:20am a 2.6 magnitude earthquake occurred west of Millington, Tennessee. It occurred in the midst of stormy weather and did not attract much notice outside of our instrumentation.  For more information go to Millington Earthquake

Friday, December 18, 2015

204 years ago this week.

On Wednesday of this week the 204 years ago the first of the great New Madrid earthquakes occurred.  It would herald a burst of seismic activity in the central United States that would include 2 more major earthquakes and  change the face of the region for years to come.  These earthquakes are still being studied and discoveries are still being made about them. The earthquakes do not willingly give up their secrets and only by coaxing information from the past both geologic and historic can new information shed more light on the phenomena that would be felt across the North American continent all those years ago.  For more information about the earthquakes and their history go to New Madrid Comependium