Category: earthquake

Magnitude 4.0 earthquake felt in Memphis metro

November 17, 2021

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Erik Proseus

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earthquake

While the New Madrid seismic zone is known to produce literally hundreds of micro-quakes each year, it is rare that any are felt noticeably throughout the Memphis metro. However, on Wednesday night at 8:53pm, the New Madrid fault produced what we believe to be the strongest earthquake in 16 years, a magnitude 4.0 tremor that…
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MWN Lightning Round: awesome local weather, a west TN quake, KMEM is StormReady, and a note on T.S. Erika

August 26, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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airport, earthquake, lightning round, stormready, tropical

Decided it would be a good idea to hit a few topics all at once today, so here comes another edition of the MWN Lightning Round! Awesome weather week I don’t know many people complaining about this week’s weather. For late August, you can’t be disappointed with morning lows in the 50s for many, afternoon…
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No foolin’ tremor jars Mid-South on April Fool’s Day

April 2, 2015

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Erik Proseus

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earthquake, new madrid fault

Revised 8:30am – USGS indicates the magnitude has been reduced to 3.6 from an initial report of 4.0 April Fool’s went out with a bang, or perhaps a rumble, yesterday as the New Madrid Fault Zone briefly reminded Mid-Southerners of its presence. A magnitude 3.6 earthquake occurred in the far southern Missouri Bootheel at 10:52pm…
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Minor earthquake rumbles northeast AR Wednesday afternoon

July 17, 2013

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Erik Proseus

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earthquake

A minor earthquake, centered just southwest of Trumann, AR, occurred at 3:10pm CDT Wednesday afternoon. The epicenter of the magnitude 3.2 quake was 44 miles northwest of downtown Memphis and it’s depth was 8.5 miles below the earth’s surface. According to the USGS, “weak shaking” was felt by a number of individuals in the immediate…
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Follow-up on Japanese quake & Pacific tsunami and spring weather in the Mid-South

March 12, 2011

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Erik Proseus

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earthquake, tsunami

Following the massive “Great Quake” in Japan on Thursday night and subsequent tsunami that affected nearly the entire Pacific basin, I posted some interesting images and links on Twitter and Facebook. I thought I’d take a minute to recap those if you missed them. First, helicorders in northeastern Arkansas detected the earth’s movement halfway around…
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A week of earthquakes for northern AR

October 11, 2010

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Erik Proseus

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earthquake

Seems the area north of Little Rock, AR, has become the Mid-South hotspot for earthquakes of late! According to the US Geologic Survey, there have been nearly four dozen small quakes all near the same location in north-central AR, north of Conway near the town of Guy. The largest, a magnitude 4.0 which was felt…
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Earthquake threat in the Mid-South

January 18, 2010

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Erik Proseus

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earthquake, new madrid fault

New Madrid Fault System, image courtesy UM-CERI With all of the recent earthquake activity across the globe, I thought it would be a good time to review the earthquake threat that the Mid-South faces on a daily basis. Though not specifically weather-related, earthquakes fall into a broader “geography” or “earth sciences” category, of which meteorology…
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