Important Takeaways:
- A swarm of earthquakes hit a massive 150-foot-long fault line in the Midwest that scientists fear is overdue for a mega-quake.
- This little-known New Madrid sits in America’s Heartland, passing through Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois.
- The US Geological Survey detected eight quakes from December 6 to 11.
- Missouri experienced seven that hit Howardville, Matthews, Martson Hayward and Cooter, and Ridgely, Tennessee experienced one.
- The largest quakes were a magnitude 3.0 and 2.6 that struck near Howardville, and the rest measured roughly magnitude 2.
- Any earthquake less than magnitude 2.5 generally isn’t felt, but the shaking can be detected by a seismograph.
- Scientists have warned that the fault line can generate a magnitude 7 or higher in the next 50 years.
- The chances of a quake that size is around about 40 percent, but ‘every year that goes by, the likelihood becomes greater,’ said Robbie Myers, an emergency coordinator with the Missouri Department of Safety.
- The last powerful seismic activity occurred between 1811 and 1812 when three quakes hit that were ‘estimated to be between magnitude 7 and 8,’ according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Though this week’s earthquake swarm is not necessarily a sign that the New Madrid fault is about to produce a larger quake, experts have said people living around it should always be prepared for a major seismic event.
- A magnitude 8 quake in this region could kill thousands, destroy bridges over the Mississippi River, buckle major highways such as Interstate 55 and cause oil and gas pipelines to break, Myers previously told DailyMail.com.
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Important Takeaways:
- The Mid-South was hit by seven earthquakes in just one day.
- The strongest earthquake – a magnitude three – was felt on Monday across parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Kentucky.
- In recent days, what’s called a “swarm of earthquakes” rattled an area near the New Madrid Fault Line in Missouri.
- Seven earthquakes shook the area in a nine-hour span.
- “This is normal seismicity,” Dr. Moran said. “It just comes in bursts on occasion.”
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Important Takeaways:
- An undersea volcano off the southeastern coast of the Big Island of Hawaii has been rocked by a swarm of more than 70 earthquakes since the weekend, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
- The largest earthquake has been a magnitude 4.3 event that happened just after noon, local time, on Saturday. Meanwhile, there was a magnitude 4.8 earthquake just 3 miles south of the town of Pahala early Tuesday morning. There have been no reports of injuries in any of the quakes.
- The USGS reports that although earthquake activity declined slightly around midnight, rates of earthquakes remain above background levels on Tuesday.
- Kama‘ehuakanaloa’s peak is about 3,189 feet below sea level, according to the USGS.
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Important Takeaways:
- A surge of earthquakes is rippling through California and reaching as far as Las Vegas.
- Since Oct. 9, Death Valley National Park has seen 130 earthquakes. Elizabeth Cochran, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, confirmed the number to SFGATE in an email. The park saw the largest earthquakes on Oct. 25, reaching magnitudes 4.7 and 4.5.
- “The cluster is considered a swarm of earthquakes because the sequence contains a large number of events but does not have a clear mainshock (an earthquake clearly larger than the rest in the sequence),” Cochran said.
- The recent shakes haven’t caused damage within the park. Death Valley has multiple fault lines — Cochran said namely the Towne Pass Fault and Northern Death Valley Fault — that cover a large area in eastern California and Nevada. The fault lines are capable of producing earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or larger.
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Important Takeaways:
- Two sets of earthquake swarms have hit California. What’s going on along the Mexico border?
- Another earthquake swarm has been rumbling along the California-Mexico border.
- More than two dozen quakes greater than magnitude 2.5 have occurred since just after midnight Saturday, with epicenters about 175 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles and 100 miles northeast of San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
- They have occurred largely along farmland between the towns of Brawley and Imperial in Imperial County. The largest quake was a magnitude 3.9 that struck at 4:05 p.m. Saturday, bringing light shaking to the Imperial Valley as well as south of the border and rattling Mexicali.
- An even larger earthquake — a magnitude 4.1 — occurred at 5:17 a.m. Monday about 28 miles northwest of the swarm that began Saturday.
- The epicenter of that quake was in a remote desert area east of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and weak shaking was felt as far away as San Diego, parts of Orange County, Temecula, the Coachella Valley, El Centro and Holtville.
- A separate swarm of earthquakes occurred a week ago, about 40 miles southeast of the most recent quake activity. Last week’s swarm occurred about 18 miles southeast of Mexicali in Baja California, with the largest a magnitude 4.2 that was felt as far away as El Centro in California and Yuma, Ariz.
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Important Takeaways:
- Underwater volcano off northwestern US could BLOW in weeks – as 300m-long stretch is hit with ‘great swarm’ of earthquakes
- Scientists have detected a ‘great swarm’ of earthquakes off the coast of Washington clocking as many as 200 in a single hour during one day.
- Geologists at the University of Washington said the quakes could lead to the Juan de Fuca Ridge erupting within a few weeks or years – but the effects are believed to be mild and not likely impact anyone on land.
- The underwater volcano sits more than 16,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean and about 150 miles off the coast of Washington.
- On March 6, the group’s real-time monitoring network detected the earthquakes, which registered a 4.1 magnitude
- The ‘great swarm’ of earthquakes followed multiple days of increasingly frequent quakes, according to Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), which is collecting the data for researchers to study.
- The spike indicated a possible ‘impending magmatic rupture,’ the research group reported.
- Officials at ONC have stressed that the effects will be mild and local, and that residents on land are extremely unlikely to feel the quake.
- Nor is it likely to trigger tsunami activity, as a tsunami is set off by a different type of tectonic plate boundary movement: pushing together and slipping, rather than pulling apart.
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