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Two small quakes recorded near Cape

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Southeast Missourian

Two small earthquakes were recorded not far from Cape Girardeau at 7:46 p.m. Friday and 6:01 a.m. Saturday.

The largest, a magnitude 2.6, struck four miles south east of East Cape Girardeau, Ill., on Friday. Seismic measurements indicate the shifting happened 8 miles below the Earth's surface.

Saturday morning's quake, a magnitude 1.9 temblor detected 4 miles below the surface, was centered 10 miles southwest of Caruthersville, Mo.

Anyone who felt either quake can help researchers by reporting what they felt at pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/html/unknown_form.html.

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Here's another site for local earthquakes:

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Maps/90-37.html

-- Posted by fxpwt on Sat, Aug 30, 2008, at 9:41 PM

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nmhnw0831a.php or http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Here are more sites to give you access to all earthquakes that have occured in the past hour, hours, days, weeks etc. The second one is the one to start out with for registration.

Here can sign up for automatic emails reporting when EQ's happen, (which is on a regular basis in SE Missouri) all over the U.S.

-- Posted by whowhatwhenwherewhy? on Sun, Aug 31, 2008, at 9:59 AM

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