Whole lot of shaking going on - Arkansas
Nothing super major but there have been a cluster of Mag 4 quakes in Arkansas over the last few days.
From the
Texarcana Gazette:
More earthquakes vibrate Arkansas
An earthquake powerful enough to be felt 200 miles away struck Greenbrier about 2 a.m. Friday, when most residents were asleep. Many probably never woke up.
Greenbrier Fire Chief Jim Sutterfield said he was one of those who slept through it. The earthquake didn’t damage any buildings or cause any injuries, and Sutterfield said earthquakes have become so common in the area that residents are used to them.
“My wife said it shook our windows in the house,” Sutterfield said. “We’ve had about 18 to 20 earthquakes nearly every day this week.”
The 4.3 magnitude quake that struck early Friday is the largest one so far in what seismologists are calling the Guy-Greenbrier swarm—a slew of small earthquakes occurring in the state’s north-central region. It is also the third-largest earthquake since a similar grouping of tremors in the 1980s called the Enola swarm.
Hope that this has nothing to do with the
New Madrid. That one is overdue...
Posted by DaveH at February 28, 2011 11:34 AM