Friday, January 15, 2016

A couple of earthquakes

Last night and early this morning we had a couple of earthquakes. One was inside the New Madrid seismic zone and the other was in Alabama. The first one occurred last night at about 10 o'clock near Carruthersville Missouri, the magnitude was 2.5 and its depth was 10 kilometers.  For further information go to Carruthersville earthquake

The other earthquake happened this morning in Alabama. This one was not located in the New Madrid seismic zone but in the zone of intermittent regional seismicity. Alabama has occasional earthquakes and this is one of them.  For more information  go to Alabama earthquake