“”If where this quake hit is part of the New Madrid fault, it’s not good.””
I wondered when I heard about it if it was part of that fault. Don’t think that would be fun regardless of our CA experiences with earthquakes.
What time did it hit?
I don’t know what time. I looked on USGS and couldn’t find it. The article says Wednesday.
Approximately 4:15 am.
It was part of the Tennessee fault
The New Madrid runs along the western end of the state, the mountains are in the eastern part. No connection between the two.
The quake hit shortly after 3 a.m. CST. It was felt in a town 10 miles north of us but though I was awake, I didn’t feel it here. I heard about it on the 4 a.m, Nashville news. The cats sensed it as they suddenly went bonkers running through the house at about that time.
There were several small quakes along that fault this week, which is unusual. Little jolts on the New Madrid are pretty common, always in the same general area.
The infamous earthquakes of 1811-12 called New Madrid were around the 8.0 intensity for the 3 biggest ones. Remember, each higher whole number is a multiple of 10 times the one below it. Within the same time period Caracas, Venezuela had a monster quake that killed at least 20,000 people.