New Madrid fault is active, today.

[Pithlet]

Activity isn't rare for this area, and nothing above 3.0, but to have had 4 quakes already before noon is unusual.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US10/32.42.-95.-85.html
This after almost a week of no activity. I wonder if it's gearing up for a bigger one.

[ramapo]

1. Interesting site

Haven't visited in a while. The maps are great. Noticed I missed a 1.9 here in NJ not far from where I work a few months ago :).

The earthquake knowledgable realize that parts of the Northeast and Midwest are susceptible to major quakes but it's be a real shocker to many. Would the terra-ists? be blamed.

[Pithlet]

2. I didn't even know there was a fault around here

Until I'd lived here a year. Apparently there was a media scare of the big one a few years before I'd moved here, but since nothing happened it kind of fell off the radar mediawise, and no one ever talks about it. I've been fascinated since then because I've never lived in an earthquake prone area before. I actually felt one of the tremors we had this year. It felt like a big truck roared right by the house and made the floor vibrate.

[HeeBGBz]

3. Does look a bit rumbly

Wonder what's up?