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