"We owe him (Iben Browning) a debt of gratitude," New Madrid Mayor Dick Phillips said Friday. "I respected the man's intelligence. In this particular case, thank God, his prediction didn't come to pass, but it made us realize that we had never made any kind of preparations for a natural disaster. We owe him for that. " Source - Showme.net
Residents of southeast Illinois were awakened in the early morning hours by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake on April 18 followed by a series of aftershocks, the largest a 4.5 recorded Monday at 12:40 a.m.
Magnitude 4.0 Aftershock, April 21, 2008, 5:38:29 UTC
Source - USGS
Source - USGS
According to the USGS, the area were the shocks occurred is located in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone and the Illinois Basin - Ozark Dome Region which covers an area that includes parts of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri.
Shakemap of Illinois Aftershock, April 21, 2008, 5:28:39 UTCSource - USGS
Based on geologic evidence there were at least 8 prehistoric earthquakes in the Wabash Valley Zone over the past 20,000 years with estimated magnitudes of 6.5 to 7.5.
Earthquakes east of the Rockies are typically felt over a broader region than in the western United States. Adjacent to Wabash Valley sits the fault line whose past predicts a dire future, the sleeping giant, the New Madrid Fault or New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ).
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