A small earthquake was recorded late Friday night in northeast Arkansas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The 1.9 magnitude earthquake occurred at 11:12 p.m. CDT Friday, July 10 (4:12 a.m. UTC Saturday, July 11). The quake’s epicenter was located approximately 3 kilometers north of Etowah and about 8 kilometers from Caraway in Mississippi County. The earthquake occurred at a depth of approximately 11.6 kilometers and has been reviewed and confirmed by a USGS seismologist.
As of Sunday, the USGS had received no public reports of people feeling the earthquake, and there were no reports of injuries or damage.
Earthquakes of this size are common within the New Madrid Seismic Zone, one of the nation’s most active seismic regions east of the Rocky Mountains. Most earthquakes measuring below magnitude 2.0 are too weak to be felt by people and are detected only by sensitive instruments.
The small quake follows several other minor earthquakes recorded across northeast Arkansas and nearby west Tennessee in recent weeks. Seismologists say these low-magnitude events are not unusual for the region and do not necessarily indicate a larger earthquake is imminent.
Residents can monitor the latest earthquake activity through the U.S. Geological Survey’s earthquake monitoring network.
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